Surreptitious

Adjective

 * 1) stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert (especially movements)

Synonyms

 * Thesaurus:covert

Derived terms

 * surreptitiously

Thesaurus
artful, back-door, backstairs, calculating, chiseling, clandestine, collusive, concealed, covert, covinous, crafty, cunning, deceitful, doggo, false, falsehearted, feline, finagling, fraudulent, furtive, guileful, hidden, hidden out, hidlings, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, in ambush, in hiding, in the wings, indirect, insidious, lurking, on the sly, on tiptoe, private, privy, prowling, pussyfoot, pussyfooted, quiet, scheming, secret, secretive, sharp, shifty, skulking, slinking, slinky, slippery, sly, sneaking, sneaky, stealing, stealthy, treacherous, trickish, tricky, two-faced, under cover, under-the-counter, under-the-table, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded, unobtrusive, veiled, waiting concealed, wily

Etymology
From surrepticius:, from surreptus, past participle of surripere ("seize secretly, steal, pilfer") < sub- ("under") + rapere ("to snatch").

Translations

 * Finnish: ,
 * French:, subreptice
 * Italian: surrettizio, subdolo, furbesco, furtivo
 * Kurdish: dizîkî, nehînî, razberî


 * Portuguese: sub-reptício, secreto; ilícito, clandestino
 * Russian: тайный, скрытый
 * Spanish: subrepticio