Indecipherable vs Cryptic - What's the difference?
indecipherable | cryptic | Related terms |
Not decipherable; impossible to decode, read, understand or comprehend.
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)
Indecipherable is a related term of cryptic.
As adjectives the difference between indecipherable and cryptic
is that indecipherable is not decipherable; impossible to decode, read, understand or comprehend while cryptic is having hidden meaning.As a noun cryptic is
(informal) a cryptic crossword.indecipherable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The doctor's handwriting was indecipherable .
Synonyms
* undecipherableAntonyms
* decipherableExternal links
*cryptic
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(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.