Cryptic and Pellucid

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Cryptic adjective - Having an often intentionally veiled or uncertain meaning.

Usage example: the oracle offered only cryptic predictions that could be interpreted any number of different ways

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Pellucid is an antonym for cryptic.

Pellucid adjective - Not subject to misinterpretation or more than one interpretation.

Usage example: her poetry has a pellucid simplicity that betrays none of the sweat that went into writing it

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Cryptic is an antonym for pellucid.

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Pellucid and Cryptic. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/cryptic/pellucid

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