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• “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- Rachel Carson“
• “rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands“

Synonyms

• cryptic of an obscure nature; having a secret or hidden meaning; having a puzzling terseness
• cryptical of an obscure nature; having a secret or hidden meaning
• deep to a great depth; to an advanced time; to a great distance; the central and most intense or profound part; a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor ; literary term for an ocean; relatively deep or strong; marked by depth of thinking; having great spatial extension or penetration downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or laterally or outward from a center; very distant in time or space; intense or extreme; having or denoting a low vocal or instrumental range; strong; relatively thick from top to bottom; extending relatively far inward; (of darkness) densely dark; large in quantity or size; with head or back bent low; of an obscure nature; difficult to penetrate; exhibiting great cunning usually with secrecy
• inscrutable of an obscure nature
• mystifying of an obscure nature

• “beyond ordinary understanding“
• “mysterious symbols“
• “the mystical style of Blake“
• “occult lore“
• “the secret learning of the ancients“

Synonyms

• mystic someone who believes in the existence of realities beyond human comprehension ; having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; relating to or resembling mysticism; relating to or characteristic of mysticism
• mystical relating to or characteristic of mysticism; relating to or resembling mysticism; having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence
• occult hidden and difficult to see; having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; supernatural forces and events and beings collectively; supernatural practices and techniques; cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention; become concealed or hidden from view or have its light extinguished; hide from view
• secret something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on); information known only to a special group; something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained; not open or public; conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods; not openly made known; communicated covertly; not expressed; designed to elude detection; hidden from general view or use; (of information) given in confidence or in secret; indulging only covertly; having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; the next to highest level of official classification for documents
• orphic ascribed to Orpheus or characteristic of ideas in works ascribed to Orpheus ; having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence