Cryptic vs Clandestine - What's the difference?
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Having hidden meaning.
Mystified or of an obscure nature.
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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)
Done or kept in secret, sometimes to conceal an illicit or improper purpose.
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(freemasonry, of a person or lodge) Not recognized as a regular member.
Cryptic is a related term of clandestine.
As adjectives the difference between cryptic and clandestine
is that cryptic is having hidden meaning while clandestine is done or kept in secret, sometimes to conceal an illicit or improper purpose.As a noun cryptic
is (informal) a cryptic crossword.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.
Derived terms
* cryptically * cryptogramclandestine
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- In my imagination, all work place encounters between men and women result in clandestine sex.
- And I don't want anyone to think I dislike Catholicism because I don't. It's actually my favourite form of clandestine global evil.