Confusing is a related term of cryptic.
As adjectives the difference between confusing and cryptic
is that
confusing is difficult to understand; not clear as lacking order, chaotic etc while
cryptic is having hidden meaning.
As a verb confusing
is .
As a noun cryptic is
(informal) a cryptic crossword.
confusing English
Adjective
( en adjective)
difficult to understand; not clear as lacking order, chaotic etc
- Several sections in that book are really confusing .
Related terms
* confuse
* confused
* confusion
Verb
(head)
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cryptic Alternative forms
* cryptick (obsolete)
Adjective
( en adjective)
Having hidden meaning.
Mystified or of an obscure nature.
* Glanvill
- Her [nature's] more cryptic ways of working.
Involving use of code or cipher/cypher.
(zoology) Well camouflaged; having good camouflage.
- Lonomia caterpillars are extremely cryptic .
Noun
( en noun)
(informal) A cryptic crossword.
* 1996 , Mary McCarthy, Remember Me (page 85)
- He settled down to the cryptic in the Independent . He loved his crossword. It kept him mentally active, just as gossip did his wife.
* 2009 , Bill Taylor, Building a crossword'' (in ''Toronto Star , 1 February 2009)
- 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
* cryptogram
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