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What is the adjective for riddling?

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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:
      4. pitted, rough, uneven, bumpy, rutted, rutty, holey, potholed, indented, dented, eroded, marked, scarred, blemished, pockmarked, eaten away, decayed, rotten, putrid, decomposed, rancid, spoiled, foetid, fetid, rank, bad, stinking, decaying, spoilt, smelly, putrefied, rotting, decomposing, mouldy, off, putrescent, corrupted, festering, addled, mildewy, moldy, perished, moldering, mouldering, rotted, carious, wormy, flyblown, maggoty, mouldered … more
riddlesome
  1. Characterised by riddles or riddling; enigmatic
  2. Examples:
      3. “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. baffling, confusing, cryptic, enigmatic, enigmatical, mysterious, paradoxical, perplexing, puzzling, teasing … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The cryptic symbols etched into the ancient stone tablet had a riddlelike quality, leaving archaeologists and historians puzzled for years.”
riddling
  1. present participle of riddle
  2. Synonyms:
      3. boring, drilling, burrowing, tunneling, tunnelling, cutting, digging, mining, digging out, excavating, piercing, punching, driving, gouging, perforating, puncturing, sinking, gouging out, reaming, hollowing out, penetrating, putting, scooping out, drilling hole, pricking, holing, stabbing, spiking, making a hole in, slitting, sticking, spearing, goring, boring through, skewering, lancing, pinking, spitting, transpiercing, rupturing, tapping, impaling, jabbing, transfixing, gashing, wounding, entering, needling, boring a hole in, drilling through … more
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