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cryptic

/ˈkrɪptɪk

adjective

1Having a meaning that is mysterious or obscure: he found his boss’s utterances too cryptic...

It is not that their conversations are obscure or cryptic.
She sings cryptic, mysterious lyrics, letting her voice guide the song.
We should be careful, because the Delphic Oracle used cryptic answers that often left the inquisitor more confused than helped.

Synonyms

enigmatic, mysterious, hard to understand, confusing, mystifying, perplexing, puzzling, obscure, abstruse, arcane, oracular, Delphic, ambiguous, elliptical, oblique

informal as clear as mud

1.1(Of a crossword) having difficult clues which indicate the solutions indirectly.Conversations were like cryptic crossword clues....

A vexatious variant of the crossword is the cryptic crossword - just reading the clues to a cryptic crossword is enough to reduce whole swathes of the population to weeping and gibbering.
Anyone keen to learn the secrets of cryptic crosswords will find more than enough clues in this charming memoir, which traces Balfour's own growing fascination with puzzles.

2 Zoology (Of coloration or markings) serving to camouflage an animal in its natural environment: cryptic plumage is thought to minimize predation...

Pelagic species appear to have converged on four major strategies for crypsis: transparency, mirroring, cryptic coloration, and counterillumination.
This shielding along with the cryptic coloration of the predator prevents the prey from becoming alarmed.
Female hummingbirds have more cryptic coloration than males, most likely so that they do not attract predators to the nest when incubating and feeding chicks.

Derivatives

cryptically

/ˈkrɪptɪk(ə)li

/ adverb ...

On those occasions when we had to leave suddenly or silently on her account, my mother would flush with excitement and speak cryptically to me, her sentences spare and hurried.
When asked whether they were more important than his political career, he cryptically replied ‘Yes, of course.’
Its billboards typically featured postmodern designs in bright colors that depicted the pieces of a jigsaw, or single images with cryptically clever questions.

Origin

Early 17th century: from late Latin crypticus, from Greek kruptikos, from kruptos 'hidden'. sense 2 dates from the late 19th century.

单词	cryptic
释义	cryptic /ˈkrɪptɪk / adjective 1Having a meaning that is mysterious or obscure: he found his boss’s utterances too cryptic... It is not that their conversations are obscure or cryptic. She sings cryptic, mysterious lyrics, letting her voice guide the song. We should be careful, because the Delphic Oracle used cryptic answers that often left the inquisitor more confused than helped. Synonyms enigmatic, mysterious, hard to understand, confusing, mystifying, perplexing, puzzling, obscure, abstruse, arcane, oracular, Delphic, ambiguous, elliptical, oblique informal as clear as mud 1.1(Of a crossword) having difficult clues which indicate the solutions indirectly.Conversations were like cryptic crossword clues.... A vexatious variant of the crossword is the cryptic crossword - just reading the clues to a cryptic crossword is enough to reduce whole swathes of the population to weeping and gibbering. Anyone keen to learn the secrets of cryptic crosswords will find more than enough clues in this charming memoir, which traces Balfour's own growing fascination with puzzles. 2 Zoology (Of coloration or markings) serving to camouflage an animal in its natural environment: cryptic plumage is thought to minimize predation... Pelagic species appear to have converged on four major strategies for crypsis: transparency, mirroring, cryptic coloration, and counterillumination. This shielding along with the cryptic coloration of the predator prevents the prey from becoming alarmed. Female hummingbirds have more cryptic coloration than males, most likely so that they do not attract predators to the nest when incubating and feeding chicks. Derivatives cryptically /ˈkrɪptɪk(ə)li / adverb ... On those occasions when we had to leave suddenly or silently on her account, my mother would flush with excitement and speak cryptically to me, her sentences spare and hurried. When asked whether they were more important than his political career, he cryptically replied ‘Yes, of course.’ Its billboards typically featured postmodern designs in bright colors that depicted the pieces of a jigsaw, or single images with cryptically clever questions. Origin Early 17th century: from late Latin crypticus, from Greek kruptikos, from kruptos 'hidden'. sense 2 dates from the late 19th century. Rhymes apocalyptic, diptych, elliptic, glyptic, styptic, triptych
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cryptic

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cryptically

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