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cryptic, cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying
adj. 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"
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enigmatic, enigmatical, puzzling
adj. not clear to the understanding; "I didn't grasp the meaning of that enigmatic comment until much later"; "prophetic texts so enigmatic that their meaning has been disputed for centuries"
insoluble
adj. admitting of no solution or explanation; "an insoluble doubt"
unfathomable, fathomless
adj. of depth; not capable of being sounded or measured
ambiguous
adj. having no intrinsic or objective meaning; not organized in conventional patterns; "an ambiguous situation with no frame of reference"; "ambiguous inkblots"
confusing, perplexing, puzzling
adj. lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity; "sent confusing signals to Iraq"; "perplexing to someone who knew nothing about it"; "a puzzling statement"
baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough
adj. making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home"
abstruse, deep, recondite
adj. difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge; "the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them"; "a deep metaphysical theory"; "some recondite problem in historiography"
dark, obscure
adj. marked by difficulty of style or expression; "much that was dark is now quite clear to me"; "those who do not appreciate Kafka's work say his style is obscure"
occult
adj. hidden and difficult to see; "an occult fracture"; "occult blood in the stool"
impenetrable
adj. impossible to understand; "impenetrable jargon"
enigmatic, oracular
adj. resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought; "the oracular sayings of Victorian poets"; "so enigmatic that priests might have to clarify it"; "an enigmatic smile"
questionable, doubtful
adj. subject to question; "questionable motives"; "a questionable reputation"; "a fire of questionable origin"
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paradoxical, self-contradictory
adj. seemingly contradictory but nonetheless possibly true; "it is paradoxical that standing is more tiring than walking"
unaccountable, unexplainable
adj. not to be accounted for or explained; "perceptible only as unaccountable influences that hinder progress"; "an unexplainable fear"
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