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What is the adjective for riddles?

What's the adjective for riddles? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb riddle which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

riddled
  1. Damaged throughout by holes.
  2. Having (something) spread throughout, as if by an infestation.
    1. Taking a noun complement construed with the preposition with.
    2. Taking a noun complement that precedes the adjective, forming a compound.
  3. Synonyms:
riddlesome
  1. Characterised by riddles or riddling; enigmatic
  2. Examples:
    1. “Numerous ancient Greek and Latin parallels can be found for these grammata games, from riddlesome picture-poems, to more humble graffiti.”
riddlelike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a riddle.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The cryptic symbols etched into the ancient stone tablet had a riddlelike quality, leaving archaeologists and historians puzzled for years.”
riddling
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