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Cryptic [krip-tik]
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cryptic [krip-tik]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: secret; obscure in meaning
Synonyms: Delphian, Delphic, abstruse, ambiguous, apocryphal, arcane, cabalistic, dark, enigmatic, equivocal, esoteric, evasive, hidden, incomprehensible, inexplicable, murky, mysterious, mystic, mystical, mystifying, occult, opaque, oracular, perplexing, puzzling, recondite, secretive, strange, tenebrous, unclear, unfathomable, uninformative, vague, veiled
Notes: cryptic coloration helps conceal an animal; phaneric coloration makes an animal stand out
Antonyms: clear, obvious, plain, seen, straightforward
Main Entry: complex
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: difficult to understand
Synonyms: Byzantine, Daedalean, Gordian, abstruse, bewildering, circuitous, complicated, confused, convoluted, crabbed, cryptic, discursive, disordered, disturbing, enigmatic, entangled, excursive, hidden, impenetrable, inscrutable, interwoven, intricate, involved, jumbled, knotted, knotty, labyrinthine, mazy, meandering, mingled, mixed, muddled, obscure, paradoxical, perplexing, puzzling, rambling, recondite, round-about, sinuous, snarled, sophisticated, tangled, tortuous, undecipherable, unfathomable, winding
Antonyms: apparent, clear, direct, discernible, easy, evident, obvious, plain
Main Entry: dark
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: hidden, secret
Synonyms: Delphian, abstruse, anagogic, arcane, cabalistic, complicated, concealed, cryptic, deep, enigmatic, esoteric, intricate, knotty, mysterious, mystic, mystical, mystifying, not known, obscure, occult, puzzling, recondite
Antonyms: apparent, distinct, evident, manifest, plain, visible
Main Entry: enigmatic/enigmatical
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: mysterious
Synonyms: Delphian, Sibylline, ambiguous, cryptic, dark, doubtful, equivocal, incomprehensible, indecipherable, inexplicable, inscrutable, obscure, occult, oracular, perplexing, puzzling, recondite, secret, sphinxlike, stickling, stumping, teasing, uncertain, unfathomable, unintelligible
Antonyms: clear, obvious, unmysterious
Main Entry: esoteric
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: mysterious, obscure
Synonyms: Delphic, Orphic, Sibylline, abstruse, acroamatic, arcane, cabalistic, cryptic, deep, heavy, hermetic, hidden, inner, inscrutable, mystic, mystical, occult, private, profound, recondite, secret
Antonyms: common, familiar, known, obvious, public, unmysterious
Main Entry: fine
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: discriminating, exact
Synonyms: abstruse, acute, clear, critical, cryptic, delicate, distinct, enigmatic, esoteric, fastidious, fine-spun, hairline, hairsplitting, intelligent, keen, minute, nice, obscure, petty, precise, pure, quick, recondite, refined, sensitive, sharp, sterling, strict, subtle, tasteful, tenuous, trifling, unadulterated, unpolluted
Antonyms: awkward, crude, uncouth, undiscriminating, unrefined
Main Entry: hidden
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unseen, secret
Synonyms: QT, abstruse, buried, clandestine, cloaked, close, clouded, concealed, covered, covert, cryptic, dark, disguised, eclipsed, esoteric, hermetic, hermetical, imperceivable, in the dark, indiscernible, invisible, latent, masked, mysterious, mystic, mystical, obscure, occult, out of view, private, recondite, screened, secluded, sequestered, shadowy, shrouded, surreptitious, ulterior, undercover, underground, undetected, undisclosed, unexposed, unknown, unrevealed, veiled, withheld
Antonyms: bare, exhibited, exposed, open, out, seen, showing, uncovered
Main Entry: incomprehensible
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: not understandable
Synonyms: Delphic, Greek, baffling, beats me, beyond comprehension, beyond one's grasp, clear as mud, cryptic, enigmatic, fathomless, impenetrable, incognizable, inconceivable, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying, obscure, opaque, over one's head, perplexing, puzzling, sibylline, unclear, unfathomable, ungraspable, unimaginable, unintelligible, unknowable
Antonyms: comprehensible, fathomable, intelligible, understandable
Main Entry: mysterious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: secret, concealed
Synonyms: abstruse, alchemistic, arcane, astrological, baffling, cabalistic, covert, cryptic, curious, dark, difficult, enigmatic, enigmatical, equivocal, esoteric, furtive, hidden, impenetrable, incomprehensible, inexplicable, inscrutable, insoluble, magical, mystical, mystifying, necromantic, obscure, occult, oracular, perplexing, puzzling, recondite, secretive, sphinxlike, spiritual, strange, subjective, symbolic, transcendental, uncanny, unfathomable, unknowable, unknown, unnatural, veiled, weird
Antonyms: apparent, known, obvious, plain, public, straightforward, tangible, unmysterious
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