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US
/ˈkɹɪptɪk/
]
[ UK /kɹˈɪptɪk/ ]
[ UK /kɹˈɪptɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
of an obscure nature
in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life
the inscrutable workings of Providence
rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands
a deep dark secret
the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms -
having a puzzling terseness
a cryptic note -
having a secret or hidden meaning
cryptic writings
cabalistic symbols engraved in stone
thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements
How To Use cryptic In A Sentence
- There must be something wrong with people who can do cryptic crosswords.
- In Andy Duncan's "Unique Chicken Goes In Reverse", a priest named Father Leggett follows a cryptic phone message to meet a five year-old girl named Mary who has taught a "frizzled" chicken to walk in reverse. REVIEW: 2007 Nebula Award Short Fiction Nominees
- While it all seems a little cryptic and confused, the duo promise a night of bizarre and sweet surprises where everyone is welcome.
- In the Great Depression, hobos who roamed transiently across North America invented pictographic graffiti languages which were cryptic to the police but well understood in their community.
- ObjectiveTo investigate CT and MRI features of cryptical cerebral vascular malformations.
- He also taught him the knack of solving cryptic clues in crossword puzzles.
- Marbled Murrelets are unusual among the alcids in that they molt to cryptic-brown plumage during the breeding season.
- I interpret her cryptic remark at the end of her chapter as supporting this view.
- If the arctic host populations become fragmented due to the northward expansion of southern biogeographic elements, extinction of parasites in small host populations and/or cryptic speciation (isolation events seen in parasites, often only by using molecular methods, that are not evident in host populations) in refugia are likely to follow. Effects of changes in climate and UV radiation levels on structure of arctic ecosystems in the short and long term
- Conan glared bewilderedly at the cryptic golden door. Wings in the Night