Comments | yellosonja: cryptic.

yellosonja

cryptic.

Dec 23, 2006 11:37

Is the word 'cryptic' more positive or negative, good or bad?

Comments 7

itsjoy December 24 2006, 05:44:40 UTC

would be context sensitive.. but I guess it would have more of a negative connotation than positive by default cos it sort of implies something being hidden unnecessarily.

fatmuttony December 24 2006, 11:59:45 UTC

IMO, definitely negative more than positive except when referring to crosswords, where cryptic means "oh joy!".

saritha December 25 2006, 10:41:01 UTC

is "mysterious" more positive or negative, good or bad?

yellosonja December 26 2006, 06:25:59 UTC

and then, two other grey words are 'interestng' and 'elusive'...

saritha December 26 2006, 10:30:07 UTC

and "nice"

yellosonja January 2 2007, 03:56:53 UTC

but "nice" is hard to tell unless you hear it in person.

arunpillai May 4 2007, 19:18:35 UTC

Positive when it comes to *security* ;)