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Meaning of cryptic

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  cryptic
      adj 1: 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" [syn: {cryptic},
             {cryptical}, {deep}, {inscrutable}, {mysterious},
             {mystifying}]
      2: having a secret or hidden meaning; "cabalistic symbols
         engraved in stone"; "cryptic writings"; "thoroughly sibylline
         in most of his pronouncements"- John Gunther [syn:
         {cabalistic}, {kabbalistic}, {qabalistic}, {cryptic},
         {cryptical}, {sibylline}]
      3: having a puzzling terseness; "a cryptic note"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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