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: cryptical , deep , inscrutable , mysterious , mystifying ]

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 , cryptical , sibylline ]

having a puzzling terseness; a cryptic note'