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| 1. | [ adjective ] not open or public; kept private or not revealed | |
| Examples: | "a secret formula" "secret ingredients" "secret talks" |
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| Related terms: | concealed | |
| 2. | [ noun ] something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on) | |
| Examples: | "the combination to the safe was a secret" "he tried to keep his drinking a secret" |
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| Related terms: | information trade_secret open_secret confidence | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] not openly made known | |
| Synonyms: | unavowed | |
| Examples: | "a secret marriage" "a secret bride" |
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| Related terms: | unacknowledged | |
| 4. | [ adjective ] conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods | |
| Synonyms: | undercover clandestine underground hush-hush hugger-mugger on_the_quiet surreptitious hole-and-corner cloak-and-dagger | |
| Examples: | "clandestine intelligence operations" "cloak-and-dagger activities" "secret missions" "surreptitious mobilization of troops" "an undercover investigation" "underground resistance" |
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| Related terms: | covert | |
| 5. | [ adjective ] communicated covertly | |
| Examples: | "their a secret signal was a wink" "secret messages" |
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| Related terms: | covert | |
| 6. | [ adjective ] not expressed | |
| Synonyms: | private | |
| Examples: | "secret (or private) thoughts" |
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| Related terms: | inward | |
| 7. | [ adjective ] indulging only covertly | |
| Synonyms: | closet | |
| Examples: | "a closet alcoholic" "closet liberals" |
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| Related terms: | covert | |
| 8. | [ adjective ] the next to highest level of official classification for documents | |
| Related terms: | classified | |
| 9. | [ noun ] information known only to a special group | |
| Synonyms: | arcanum | |
| Examples: | "the secret of Cajun cooking" |
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| Related terms: | information password cabala esoterica | |
| 10. | [ adjective ] (of information) given in confidence or in secret | |
| Synonyms: | confidential closet | |
| Examples: | "closet information" "this arrangement must be kept confidential" "their secret communications" |
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| Related terms: | private | |
| 11. | [ adjective ] designed to elude detection | |
| Synonyms: | hidden | |
| Examples: | "a hidden room or place of concealment such as a priest hole" "a secret passage" "the secret compartment in the desk" |
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| Related terms: | concealed | |
| 12. | [ adjective ] hidden from general view or use | |
| Synonyms: | secluded privy | |
| Examples: | "a privy place to rest and think" "a secluded romantic spot" "a secret garden" |
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| Related terms: | private | |
| 13. | [ adjective ] having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding | |
| Synonyms: | mysterious mystic occult orphic mystical | |
| Examples: | "mysterious symbols" "the mystical style of Blake" "occult lore" "the secret learning of the ancients" |
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| Related terms: | esoteric | |
| 14. | [ noun ] something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained | |
| Synonyms: | mystery enigma closed_book | |
| Examples: | "how it got out is a mystery" "it remains one of nature's secrets" |
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| Related terms: | perplexity perplex | |
| Similar spelling: |
secrete secretor secretly secretin secreter secretory secretive secretion secreting secretase secretary secured |
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