cryptical

1. 1.

   of an obscure nature

   “the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms”

   “a deep dark secret”

   “the inscrutable workings of Providence”

   “in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life”

   “rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands”

   Synonymscrypticdeepinscrutablemysteriousmystifying

   Similarinexplicable
2. 2.

   having a secret or hidden meaning

   “cabalistic symbols engraved in stone”

   “cryptic writings”

   “thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements”

   Synonymscabalistickabbalisticqabalisticcrypticsibylline

   Similaresoteric

Questions about cryptical

What does cryptical mean?

cryptical means "of an obscure nature". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cryptical?

cryptical has 3 syllables: cryp-ti-cal. The stress falls on "cryp".

What is another word for cryptical?

Close synonyms include cryptic, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cryptical a common word?

cryptical is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.