Synonyms for Cryptic:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • cryptical,
  • deep,
  • inscrutable,
  • mysterious,
  • mystifying.
  •complex (adjective)
  • involved,
  • paradoxical.
  •incomprehensible (adjective)
  • uncomprehensible,
  • over head.
  •meaningless (adjective)
  • absurd,
  • blathering,
  • gobbledygook,
  • hogwash,
  • jabbering,
  • meaningless,
  • noisy,
  • nonsensical,
  • senseless,
  • unmeaning,
  • Driveling,
  • double-talk.
  •occult (adjective)
  • mystical.
  •opaque (adjective)
  • opaque.
  •secret (adjective)
  • under wraps,
  • mystic,
  • huggermugger.
  •secret; obscure in meaning (adjective)
  • abstruse,
  • ambiguous,
  • apocryphal,
  • arcane,
  • cabalistic,
  • dark,
  • delphian,
  • delphic,
  • 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.
  •short (adjective)
  • terse.
  •ulterior (adjective)
  • Obscured,
  • Undivulged.
  •uncommunicative (adjective)
  • secretive.
  •unintelligible (adjective)
  • baffling,
  • confusing,
  • enigmatic,
  • illegible,
  • indecipherable,
  • mysterious,
  • mystifying,
  • unclear,
  • unreadable.

• n.

  •
  • ambiguity,
  • hollow,
  • ill-defined,
  • nonsense,
  • Two-edged.
  •
  • arcane,
  • explain,
  • knowledge,
  • puzzling.
  •cryptic (noun)
  • cabalistic,
  • concise,
  • cryptical,
  • deep,
  • esoteric,
  • incomprehensible,
  • inexplicable,
  • inscrutable,
  • mysterious,
  • mystifying,
  • sibylline.
  •enigmatic (noun)
  • hidden,
  • obscure.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • arcane,
  • nonsense,
  • null,
  • oracular,
  • questionable,
  • vague,
  • Two-edged.
  •
  • ambiguity,
  • complex,
  • dark,
  • elliptical,
  • puzzling,
  • vaguely.
  •
  • hollow.
  •mysterious
  • hidden.
  •vague
  • obscure.
  •Other relevant words:
  • abstruse,
  • allegorical,
  • ambiguity,
  • ambiguous,
  • anomalous,
  • apocryphal,
  • arcane,
  • auricular,
  • bass,
  • bewildering,
  • blurred,
  • cabalistic,
  • censored,
  • clandestine,
  • classified,
  • close,
  • closed,
  • complex,
  • concealed,
  • concise,
  • confusable,
  • confused,
  • covert,
  • crossword,
  • cryptical,
  • cryptographic,
  • dark,
  • deep,
  • delphian,
  • delphic,
  • divinatory,
  • dormant,
  • double-edged,
  • doubtful,
  • dubious,
  • elliptical,
  • elusive,
  • enigmatical,
  • equivocal,
  • esoteric,
  • evasive,
  • explain,
  • extreme,
  • fine,
  • foggy,
  • foreign,
  • furtive,
  • fuzzy,
  • hazy,
  • hermetic,
  • hibernating,
  • hidden,
  • hollow,
  • hush-hush,
  • ill-defined,
  • impenetrable,
  • imprecise,
  • incomprehensible,
  • inconceivable,
  • inconclusive,
  • indefinite,
  • indeterminate,
  • indistinct,
  • ineffable,
  • inexact,
  • inexplicable,
  • inexplicit,
  • inscrutable,
  • intense,
  • intricate,
  • inviolate,
  • involved,
  • knotty,
  • knowledge,
  • latent,
  • lightless,
  • lurking,
  • mantic,
  • misty,
  • muffled,
  • murky,
  • mystic,
  • mystical,
  • nebulous,
  • nonsense,
  • null,
  • obscure,
  • occult,
  • on the sly,
  • opaque,
  • oracular,
  • orphic,
  • paradoxical,
  • perplexing,
  • possible,
  • potential,
  • preternatural,
  • private,
  • privy,
  • problematic,
  • problematical,
  • profound,
  • puzzling,
  • questionable,
  • recondite,
  • restricted,
  • rich,
  • secret,
  • secretive,
  • sibyllic,
  • sibylline,
  • sleeping,
  • smothered,
  • stifled,
  • strange,
  • strong,
  • submerged,
  • subtle,
  • supernatural,
  • suppressed,
  • symbolic,
  • tenebrous,
  • terse,
  • thick,
  • top-secret,
  • tortuous,
  • tricky,
  • ulterior,
  • uncanny,
  • uncertain,
  • uncomprehensible,
  • undecipherable,
  • undefined,
  • under wraps,
  • underlying,
  • undisclosed,
  • unexplainable,
  • unfamiliar,
  • unfathomable,
  • unimaginable,
  • uninformative,
  • unintelligible,
  • unknown,
  • unlit,
  • unrevealed,
  • unseen,
  • unspecific,
  • unspoken,
  • untellable,
  • untold,
  • unutterable,
  • unuttered,
  • vague,
  • vaguely,
  • vatic,
  • vatical,
  • veiled,
  • virtual,
  • Delitescent,
  • Fuliginous,
  • Obfuscated,
  • Obscured,
  • Riddling,
  • hugger mugger,
  • kabbalistic,
  • qabalistic,
  • Prevaricating,
  • Two-edged,
  • encrypted,
  • encoded,
  • huggermugger,
  • Undivulged,
  • between the lines,
  • non-specific,
  • over head,
  • sphinxlike,
  • other-worldly,
  • in petto,
  • unmanifested,
  • cabbalistic.

Antonyms for Cryptic:

• adj.

  • secret; obscure in meaning
    certain, clear, common, definite, known, normal, obvious, plain, seen, straightforward, sure.
  • Other antonyms:
    accessible, apparent, appreciable, blatant, bright, certain, clear, comprehensible, defined, definite, determined, direct, distinct, evident, exact, exoteric, explicable, explicit, fathomable, firm, intelligible, knowable, legible, manifest, obvious, open-and-shut, palpable, patent, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, prolix, self-evident, self-explanatory, straightforward, strong, sure, tangible, transparent, unambiguous, understandable, unequivocal, unmistakable, visible, nonambiguous.

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    accessible, apparent, appreciable, blatant, bright, certain, clear, common, comprehensible, defined, definite, determined, direct, distinct, evident, exact, explicit, fathomable, firm, knowable, known, normal, obvious, open-and-shut, palpable, patent, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, seen, self-evident, self-explanatory, straightforward, strong, sure, tangible, transparent, unambiguous, understandable, unequivocal, unmistakable, nonambiguous.