Cryptic
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
Weird and cryptic are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Weird" instead an adjective "Cryptic".
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Both words in one sentence
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Most of After War Gundam X takes place on Earth, and the rising New Earth Federation is focused just on terrestrial conquest, apart from the cryptic hints that there's something weird on the Moon.
Source: But What About the Astronauts? - To avoid unnecessary spoilers, it starts getting weird fast, and ends with one of the most cryptic, incomprehensible scenes ever seen.
Source: Mind Screw / Video Games - Each of the pictures was surrounded by cryptic text, and had hidden images, odd symbology and weird puzzles in.
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