[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

cryptic \cryp"tic\ kri^p"ti^k, cryptical \cryp"tical\
   -t?-kal, a. l. crypticus, gr. kryptiko`s, fr. kry`ptein to
   hide.
   hidden; secret; occult. "her nature's more cryptic ways of
   working." --glanvill.
   1913 webster

   2. incomprehensible to those not familiar with the culture or
      jargon; as, the new insurance policy is written without
      cryptic or mysterious terms.

   syn: inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying.
        wordnet 1.5

   3. having a secret or hidden meaning; as, cryptic symbols
      engraved in stone; cryptic writings.

   syn: cabalistic, occult, secret, sibylline.
        wordnet 1.5

   3. having a puzzling terseness; as, a cryptic note.
      wordnet 1.5

   4. not evident; unrecognized; as, a cryptic infection.
      pjc

   5. written in a code or cipher; as, a cryptic message.

   syn: encoded, enciphered, encrypted.
        pjc

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

cryptic
     adj 1: of an obscure nature; "the new insurance policy is written
            without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark
            secret"; "the inscrutible 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
     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, cryptical,
         sibylline
     3: having a puzzling terseness; "a cryptic note"
see also:
cryptical deep inscrutable mysterious mystifying cabalistic 
kabbalistic qabalistic sibylline 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

82 moby thesaurus words for "cryptic":
   abstruse, arcane, between the lines, cabalistic, cabbalistic,
   censored, classified, close, closed, concealed, covert, dark,
   delitescent, dormant, enigmatic, equivocal, esoteric, evasive,
   hermetic, hibernating, hidden, hush-hush, incomprehensible,
   inexplicable, inscrutable, latent, lurking, muffled, murky,
   mysterious, mystic, mystical, mystifying, nebulous, obfuscated,
   obscure, obscured, occult, opaque, perplexing, possible, potential,
   puzzling, recondite, restricted, riddling, secret, secretive,
   sleeping, smothered, sphinxlike, stifled, strange, submerged,
   suppressed, tenebrous, top secret, ulterior, unbreatheable,
   unclear, under security, under the surface, under wraps,
   underlying, undisclosable, undisclosed, undivulgable, undivulged,
   unfathomable, uninformative, unmanifested, unrevealable,
   unrevealed, unspoken, untellable, untold, unutterable, unuttered,
   unwhisperable, vague, veiled, virtual

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