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1. : secret, occult. 2. a. : having or seeming to have a hidden or ambiguous meaning : mysterious. cryptic messages. cryptic prophecies. b. : marked by an often perplexing brevity. cryptic marginal notes. 3. : serving to conceal. cryptic coloration in animals. also : exhibiting cryptic coloration. cryptic animals. 4. : not recognized.
mysterious and difficult to understand: a cryptic message / remark.
adjective. us / ˈkrɪp·tɪk / Add to word list. mysterious and difficult to understand: a cryptic message / remark. (Definition of cryptic from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
1. mysterious in meaning; puzzling. 2. secret; occult: cryptic writing.
Cryptic comments or messages are hard to understand because they seem to have a hidden meaning. Cryptic is from Late Latin crypticus, from Greek kryptos, "hidden." This Greek adjective is the source of the English noun crypt, referring to a room under a church in which dead people are buried.
A cryptic remark or message contains a hidden meaning or is difficult to understand.
Cryptic definition: mysterious in meaning; puzzling; ambiguous. See examples of CRYPTIC used in a sentence.
mysterious and difficult to understand: a cryptic comment / message. cryptically. adverb. (Definition of cryptic from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
CRYPTIC meaning: difficult to understand having or seeming to have a hidden meaning.
Definition of cryptic adjective in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
