Unfathomable vs Cryptic - What's the difference?
unfathomable | cryptic | Related terms |
Impossible to fathom or understand; incomprehensible.
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Difficult to penetrate.
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)
Unfathomable is a related term of cryptic.
As adjectives the difference between unfathomable and cryptic
is that unfathomable is impossible to fathom or understand; incomprehensible while cryptic is having hidden meaning.As a noun cryptic is
(informal) a cryptic crossword.unfathomable
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The sheer numbers they attacked with were unfathomable .
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Antonyms
* (l)See also
* (l) * (l) * (l)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.
