adjective
being intentionally obscure and mysterious
the senator made some cryptic statements about intelligence operations
Synonyms: dark, Delphian, enigmatic, mystifying; compare obscure 3
Related Word: equivocal, murky, obscure, opaque, tenebrous, unclear, uninformative, vague; incomprehensible, inexplicable, strange, unfathomable; abstruse, mysterious; evasive, secretive