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    [Adjective]  | "cryp*tic" | \ ˈkrip-tik \


    1: secret, occult

    2: having or seeming to have a hidden or ambiguous meaning : mysterious

    3: marked by an often perplexing brevity


    Origin: 1620 ;

     Borrowed from Late Latin crypticus "hidden," borrowed from Late Greek kryptikós "obscuring" (Greek kryptikôs "secretly"), from kryptós "hidden, secret" + -ikos {see: |-ic:1|-ic:1} {mat|crypt|};

    [Adjective]  | "cryptic" 


    1: being beyond one's powers to know, understand, or explain;


      * e.g., " ... puzzled by the cryptic e-mail message left on his computer "





    2: having an often intentionally veiled or uncertain meaning;


      * e.g., " ... the oracle offered only cryptic predictions that could be interpreted any number of different ways "



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     [ "cryptic" ]

    1:  Having a hidden meaning.

      * e.g.,  ... I don't understand that cryptic language. 


     [ "cryptic" ]

    2:  Secret or mysterious.


     [ "cryptic" ]

    3:  Using code.

     [ "cryptic" ]

    1:  hidden meanings

      * e.g.,  ... "my girfriend was being so cryptic" 


     [ "cryptic" ]

    2:  women

     [ "cryptic" ]

    1: short for wordcrypticharrasser/word

     [ "crypticism" ]

    1: The art of referring to events or feelings cryptically.

      * e.g.,  ... It would be easier to keep track of what's going on in Timmy's life if his posts weren't so full of crypticism. 


     [ "crypticism" ]

    2: Often practised on sites like LiveJournal, e-where posters attempt to use crypticism to avoid starting drama. Unfortunately, when people try to interpret the crypticism drama often ensues anyway.


     [ "crypticism" ]

    3: The best crypticism is incomprehensible to anyone not already in the know, but makes things quite clear to its intended audience.

     [ "crypticity" ]

    1:  The state or quality of being cryptic.

      * e.g.,  ... She speaks with an excess of crypticity, which makes her motive unclear. 


     [ "crypticity" ]

    2:  Crypticness.

     [ "Cryptical" ]

    1: When someone is being cryptic and cynical at the same time.

      * e.g.,  ... Mad girlfriend: "Oh, right. Well if YOU don't know what you did, you loser, I'm certainly NOT going to tell you." 

     [ " Crypticism" ]

    1: Being cryptic and cynical simultaneously.

      * e.g.,  ... Mad girlfriend: "Oh, right. Well if YOU don't know what you did, you loser, I'm certainly NOT going to tell you." 

     [ "Cryptic" ]

    1: A taboo beverage which includes human urine and other urea derivatives among its active ingredients.

      * e.g.,  ... I was very thirsty, so obviously my first thought was to guzzle a tall glass of Cryptic. 

     [ "cryptics" ]

    1: The act of speaking in a cryptic manner.

      * e.g.,  ... He needs to stop speaking in cryptics. 

     [ "Cryptic " ]

    1: Scary , horrifing , creepy , any thing which has morbid nature

      * e.g.,  ... Cryptic is the only way to describe that ugly bitches hair. 

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