Cryptic vs Undercover - What's the difference?
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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)
Performed or happening in secret.
Employed or engaged in spying or secret investigation.
Cryptic is a related term of undercover.
As adjectives the difference between cryptic and undercover
is that cryptic is having hidden meaning while undercover is performed or happening in secret.As nouns the difference between cryptic and undercover
is that cryptic is (informal) a cryptic crossword while undercover is a person who works.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.