Cryptic comments or messages are hard to understand because they seem to have a hidden meaning. Cryptic is from Late Latin crypticus, from Greek kryptos, "hidden." This Greek adjective is the source of the English noun crypt, referring to a room under a church in which dead people are buried.

What does cryptic mean?

1 : secret, occult. 2a : having or seeming to have a hidden or ambiguous meaning : mysterious cryptic messages cryptic prophecies. b : marked by an often perplexing brevity cryptic marginal notes.

What is a cryptic person?

The definition of cryptic is defined as something with unclear or hidden meaning, or a secret. ... Having hidden meaning; mystifying.