cryptic

Definitions

Having a meaning that is mysterious or obscure.

Serving to conceal or hide; secret.

Difficult to understand or interpret.

Examples

The detective was baffled by the cryptic message left at the crime scene.

She gave me a cryptic smile before walking out of the room without saying a word.

The ancient manuscript is filled with cryptic symbols that historians have yet to decipher.

Synonyms

enigmatic mysterious obscure abstruse arcane puzzling ambiguous

Antonyms

clear obvious explicit intelligible plain transparent unambiguous