enigmatic

Adjective

• 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
    

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  oracular , enigmatical , puzzling