cryptic

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A cryptic crossword puzzle. informal
    — He settled down to the cryptic in the Independent. He loved his crossword. It kept him mentally active, just as gossip did his wife.
形容词 adj.
  1. Having hidden (unapparent) meaning.
  2. Mystified or of an obscure nature; not easy to perceive.
    — I think the Original of this conceit might be, That the Students of Nature, conſcious to her more cryptick wayes of working, reſolve many ſtrange effects into the nearer efficiency of ſecond cauſes[…]
  3. Involving use of a code or cipher.
  4. Of a crossword puzzle, or a clue in such a puzzle, using, in addition to definitions, wordplay such as anagrams, homophones and hidden words to indicate solutions.
  5. Well camouflaged; having good camouflage.
    — Lonomia caterpillars are extremely cryptic.
  6. Serving as camouflage.
    — cryptic colouring
  7. Apparently identical, but actually genetically distinct. not-comparable
    — cryptic species
  8. Living in a cavity or small cave.
    — Much of the Permian Capitan reef was strongly differentiated into open surface and cryptic communities.

词形变化

more cryptic comparative most cryptic superlative cryptick alternative,obsolete cryptics plural cryptick alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
anticryptic cryptic crossword cryptic definition crypticity crypticness cryptic ovulation cryptic species holocryptic noncryptic pseudocryptic semicryptic uncryptic
相关词
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词源

词源 1
From Late Latin crypticus, from Ancient Greek κρυπτικός (kruptikós), from κρυπτός (kruptós, “hidden”), from κρύπτω (krúptō, “to hide”). Doublet of kryptic.
词源 2
From Late Latin crypticus, from Ancient Greek κρυπτικός (kruptikós), from κρυπτός (kruptós, “hidden”), from κρύπτω (krúptō, “to hide”). Doublet of kryptic.
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