Bewildering vs Cryptic - What's the difference?
bewildering | cryptic | Related terms |
Very confusing, perplexing, or baffling, often due to a very large choice being available.
bewilderment
* (Herman Melville), Pierre
Having hidden meaning.
Mystified or of an obscure nature.
* Glanvill
Involving use of code or cipher/cypher.
(zoology) Well camouflaged; having good camouflage.
(informal) A cryptic crossword.
* 1996 , Mary McCarthy, Remember Me (page 85)
* 2009 , Bill Taylor, Building a crossword'' (in ''Toronto Star , 1 February 2009)
Bewildering is a related term of cryptic.
As adjectives the difference between bewildering and cryptic
is that bewildering is very confusing, perplexing, or baffling, often due to a very large choice being available while cryptic is having hidden meaning.As nouns the difference between bewildering and cryptic
is that bewildering is bewilderment while cryptic is (informal) a cryptic crossword.As a verb bewildering
is .bewildering
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- There was a bewildering collection of curiosities filling the room.
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Then the bewilderings of the comings and the goings of the coffins at the large and populous house; these bewilderings came over me. What was it to be dead? What is it to be living?
cryptic
English
(wikipedia cryptic)Alternative forms
* cryptick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Her [nature's] more cryptic ways of working.
- Lonomia caterpillars are extremely cryptic .
Noun
(en noun)- He settled down to the cryptic in the Independent . He loved his crossword. It kept him mentally active, just as gossip did his wife.
- This writer has been solving cryptics for 40 years and can usually crack Araucaria, though it might take a couple of days.