ADJECTIVE
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of an obscure nature
in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life
the inscrutable workings of Providence
rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands
a deep dark secret
the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms -
having a secret or hidden meaning
cryptic writings
cabalistic symbols engraved in stone
thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements
How To Use cryptical In A Sentence
- ObjectiveTo investigate CT and MRI features of cryptical cerebral vascular malformations.
- These blennies are cryptically colored or transparent, heavily scaled, and small.
- He did not explain that somewhat cryptical remark, and presently he left her and went to his room. Skyrider
- But when forced conscription into the military becomes inevasible, I expect young people, at least those able to comprehend the significance of their place in history, to take a stand against the tyranny of war forces of evil cryptically embedded within the polity of a nation having gone wrong. Archive 2006-06-01
- He also, cryptically accused some club presidents of being disingenuous.
- DV, DV Widescreen, HD 1080i, MPEG-4 etc. .. but the default appears to be NTSC with no option to change. .. you change the video standard in iM's prefs, a bit 'cryptical' by setting the framerate to Discussions: Message List - root
- A very obscure one, though - and again referred to only cryptically, even in the more apocryphal works of the time. NIGHT SISTERS
- Mary Virginia often talked as the alchemists used to write -- cryptically, abstrusely, as if to hide the golden truth from all but the initiate. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man
- `we will meet again', he said cryptically
- It is a piscivore that is cryptically silver-colored and optimized for speed and prey capture.
