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ellipticaladjectiveor elliptic having an often intentionally veiled or uncertain meaningthe poet's elliptical style is such that the reader often senses that an allusion is being made—but to what exactly? ambiguous, arcane, cryptic, dark, deep, Delphic, double-edged, enigmatic(also enigmatical), equivocal, fuliginous, inscrutable, murky, mysterious, mystic, nebulous, obscure, occult, opaque abstruse, esoteric, reconditecloaked, concealed, disguised, masked, shroudedbeclouded, bedimmed, befogged, clouded, cloudy, dim, faint, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, indistinct, indistinguishable, misty, muddy, obfuscatory, obnubilated, obscurant(or obscurantic), shaded, shadowlike, shadowy, sphinxlikeindefinite, inexact, inexplicit, noncommittal, questionable, unclear, uncertain, undefined, undetermined, vagueimpenetrable, incomprehensible, indecipherable, inexplicableeerie(also eery), uncanny, weirdimpalpable, inappreciable, intangible, invisibleunanswerable, unknowablebaffling, bewildering, confounding, confusing, mystifying, perplexing, puzzling, unfathomablecircuitous, indirect, roundaboutcomplex, complicated, difficult, obtuse accessible, clear, nonambiguous, obvious, plain, unambiguous, unequivocal comprehensible, fathomable, intelligible, knowable, legible, pellucid, understandablebright, distinct, evident, self-evident, self-explanatorycertain, firm, strong, suredefined, determineddirect, straightforwarddefinite, exact, explicitappreciable, palpable, tangible, visibleblatant, patent, unmistakable having the shape of an eggthe villa's marble pool is surrounded by an elliptic arrangement of ancient Greek statuary oval, ovate, ovoid(also ovoidal) marked by the use of few words to convey much information or meaninghis elliptical replies can seem rude to some people, but that's just his way aphoristic, apothegmatic, brief, capsule, compact, compendious, concise, crisp, curt, epigrammatic, laconic, monosyllabic, pithy, sententious, succinct, summary, telegraphic, terse, thumbnail abrupt, blunt, brusque(also brusk), short, snippety, snippyabbreviated, abridged, condensed, curtailed, shortenedmeaty, substantialmeaningful, significantwell-turned circuitous, circumlocutory, diffuse, long-winded, prolix, rambling, verbose, windy, wordy pleonastic, redundant, repetitious, tautological, tautologousenlarged, expanded, supplementedembellished, embroidered, exaggerated, inflated in 1656 |