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secret
[ see-krit ]
adjective
- done, made, or conducted without the knowledge of others:
secret negotiations.
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- kept from the knowledge of any but the initiated or privileged:
a secret password.
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- faithful or cautious in keeping confidential matters confidential; close-mouthed; discreet.
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- designed or working to escape notice, knowledge, or observation: the secret police.
a secret drawer;
the secret police.
- secluded, sheltered, or withdrawn:
a secret hiding place.
- beyond ordinary human understanding; esoteric.
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- (of information, a document, etc.)
- bearing the classification secret.
- limited to persons authorized to use information documents, etc., so classified.
noun
- something that is or is kept secret, hidden, or concealed.
- a mystery:
the secrets of nature.
- a reason or explanation not immediately or generally apparent.
- a method, formula, plan, etc., known only to the initiated or the few: a trade secret.
the secret of happiness;
a trade secret.
- a classification assigned to information, a document, etc., considered less vital to security than top-secret but more vital than confidential, and limiting its use to persons who have been cleared, as by various government agencies, as trustworthy to handle such material. Compare classification ( def 5 ).
- (initial capital letter) Liturgy. a variable prayer in the Roman and other Latin liturgies, said inaudibly by the celebrant after the offertory and immediately before the preface.
secret
/ ˈːɪ /
adjective
- kept hidden or separate from the knowledge of others cryptic
- known only to initiates
a secret password
- hidden from general view or use
a secret garden
- able or tending to keep things private or to oneself
- operating without the knowledge of outsiders
a secret society
- outside the normal range of knowledge
noun
- something kept or to be kept hidden
- something unrevealed; mystery
- an underlying explanation, reason, etc, that is not apparent
the secret of success
- a method, plan, etc, known only to initiates
- liturgy a variable prayer, part of the Mass, said by the celebrant after the offertory and before the preface
- in the secretamong the people who know a secret
Derived Forms
- ˈٱ, adverb
Other yvlog Forms
- ·· adverb
- ··Ա noun
- ԴDz·· adjective noun
- ܲ·-· adjective
- ··· adjective
- ··· noun
- ܱ·ٰ·· adjective
yvlog History and Origins
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of secret1
Idioms and Phrases
- in secret, unknown to others; in private; secretly:
A resistance movement was already being organized in secret.
More idioms and phrases containing secret
see in secret ; open secret .Example Sentences
The reason he killed the husband, Baker said, was because he was fed up with sharing her and living a life of secret liaisons.
There are a few things you can find on In-N-Out’s notorious “secret” menu, but front row seats to a massive brawl isn’t one of them.
Their job is to paint every dumb decision made by Donald Trump as the work of a secret genius who is only pretending to be a half-literate idiot.
Data on the use of the death penalty is classified as a state secret both in China and Vietnam, meaning that the charity has been unable to access statistics.
But Trump and advisers decided to bypass that legal system and instead order the swift and nearly secret deportation of hundreds of Venezuelans who had tattoos that suggested they were members of a criminal gang.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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