cryptic

(s) of an obscure nature
- the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms
- a deep dark secret
- the inscrutable workings of Providence
- "in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life"- Rachel Carson
- rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands
cryptical, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying, deep,
(s) having a secret or hidden meaning
- cabalistic symbols engraved in stone
- cryptic writings
- "thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements"- John Gunther
cabalistic, kabbalistic, qabalistic, cryptical, sibylline,
(s) having a puzzling terseness
- a cryptic note

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cryptical cryptically cryptic coloration