Cryptical

Definition: Cryptical

Cryptical

Adjective

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".

2. Having a secret or hidden meaning; "cabalistic symbols engraved in stone"; "cryptic writings"; "thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements"- John Gunther.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Cryptical

Concealment

Adjective: concealed; Verb: hidden; secret, recondite, mystic, cabalistic, occult, dark; cryptic, cryptical; private, privy, in petto, auricular, clandestine, close, inviolate; tortuous.

Books

• Black Forbidden Things: Cryptical Secrets from the 'Crypt of Cthulhu (Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism, No 44) (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

German

heimlich (clandestine, clandestinely, furtive, hidden, inwardly, lurking, privately, quiet, secret, secretive, secretly, sneaking, stealthily, stealthy, stolen, surreptitious, surreptitiously, thievishly, undeclared, undercover). (various references)

Greek 

κρύφιοσ (covert, lurking, stealthy, surreptitious, ulterior, underhand, underhanded). (various references)

Pig Latin

ypticalcray

Turkish

gizli (arcane, back door, blind, camera, clandestine, classified, closet, concealed, confidential, covert, cryptic, crypto-, disguised, esoteric, furtive, hidden, hole-and-corner, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hush hush, inner, intimate, latent, masked, occult, perdu, Perdue, private, privy, quiet, restricted, sealed, secluded, secret, secretly, slinky, sneaking, sneakingly, sneaky, snug, stealthy, sub rosa, submerged, submersed, subterranean, subterraneous, surreptitious, ulterior, under cover, underarm, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded, undisclosed, unsearchable, unseen), esrarlı (arcane, cryptic, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystical, numinous, occult, secret, unaccountable), şifreli (ciphered, cryptic, in cipher). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "cryptical": cryptically. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: acrylic, clarity, cryptal, cryptic, practic, typical.

-3 letters: arctic, artily, atypic, capric, citral, lactic, paltry, parity, partly, piracy, racily, raptly, rictal, triply.

-4 letters: aptly, atrip, cacti, carpi, circa, clapt, clary, clipt, crypt, laity, lyart, lyric, lytic, party, patly, pical, pilar, plait, platy, plica, pricy, pyric, riyal, tapir, tical, trail, triac, trial, typal, typic.

-5 letters: acyl.

+2 letters: cryptically, practicably, practically, pyroclastic.

+3 letters: archetypical, chalcopyrite, hypocritical, lycanthropic, practicality, prophylactic, prostacyclin.

+4 letters: chalcopyrites, cryptanalytic, cryptological, hypercritical, impracticably, impractically, polychromatic, prophylactics, prostacyclins, pyrotechnical.

+5 letters: hypocoristical, hypocritically, impracticality, paratactically, practicability.