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English Dictionary: cryptical by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cryptical
adj
  1. 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"
    Synonym(s): cryptic, 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
    Synonym(s): cabalistic, kabbalistic, qabalistic, cryptic, cryptical, sibylline
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cryptic \Cryp"tic\ (kr[icr]p"t[icr]k), Cryptical \Cryp"tic*al\
      (-t?-kal), a. [L. crypticus, Gr. kryptiko`s, fr. kry`ptein to
      hide.]
      Hidden; secret; occult. [bd]Her [nature's] more cryptic ways
      of working.[b8] --Glanvill.
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