cryptic

Adjective

• having a puzzling terseness
  • a cryptic note
    

• having a secret or hidden meaning
  • cabalistic symbols engraved in stone
    
  • cryptic writings
    
  • thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements- John Gunther
    

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

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  cabalistic , kabbalistic , qabalistic , cryptical , sibylline , deep , inscrutable , mysterious , mystifying