Secret

Noun

 * 1) Knowledge that is hidden and intended to be kept hidden.
 * Can you keep a secret? So can I.

Derived terms

 * family secret
 * in secret
 * keep secret
 * open secret


 * Oxford secret
 * secretist
 * state secret
 * top secret


 * trade secret
 * Victoria's Secret

Adjective

 * 1) Being or kept hidden.
 * We went down a secret passage.

Alternative forms

 * secrette

Synonyms

 * private
 * confidential
 * concealed

Antonyms

 * overt

Derived terms

 * secret admirer
 * secret agent
 * secret ballot
 * secret code
 * secret partner
 * secret police
 * secret/sacred
 * secret Santa


 * secret service
 * secret society
 * secret writing
 * secretive
 * secretly
 * secretness
 * unsecret

Related terms

 * secrete
 * secretion

Verb

 * 1)  To make or keep secret.
 * 2) * 1984, Peter Scott Lawrence, | Around the mulberry tree, Firefly Books, p. 26
 * [...] she would unfold the silk, press it with a smooth wooden block that she'd heated in the oven, and then once more secret it away.
 * 1) * 1986, | InfoWorld, InfoWorld Media Group, Inc.
 * Diskless workstations [...] make it difficult for individuals to copy information [...] onto a diskette and secret it away.
 * 1) * 1994, Phyllis Granoff & Koichi Shinohara, | Monks and magicians: religious biographies in Asia, Mosaic Press, p. 50
 * To prevent the elixir from reaching mankind and thereby upsetting the balance of the universe, two gods secret it away.

Derived terms

 * secrete

Adjectives for Secret
unnecessary; enrapturing; golden; tender; yearning; solemn; terrible; guilty; precious; close-locked; fatal; sublime; effective; minute; open; delicious; damaging; dreadful; mysterious;  unrevealed;  innocent; priceless;  efficient;   scientific;   ultimate; subtle; treasured; serious; sterile; elfish; grim; divine; curious; shameful; conventual; vital; untold; elemental; unsavory.

Verbs for Secret
betray—; disclose—; discover—; divulge—; entrust—; explore—; expose—; exult in—; ferret into—; ferret out—; glean—s; guard —; harbor—; hug—; impart—; laden with —s; penetrate—; probe—; pry into—; re¬count—; rediscover—; rejoice in—; relieve of—; relish—; reveal—; secure—; share—; spill—; take into—; unbosom—; unearth—; unfold—; unlock—; utter—; wheedle—; wrest—from; wring—from; yield—; — breaks; —leaks out; —mystifies.

Adverbs for Secret
apparently; closely; carefully; profoundly; inviolably; necessarily; dangerously; darkly; pleasantly; mysteriously; deeply; furtively; vexatiously; foolishly; wisely; inscrutably; childishly.

Thesaurus
abstract, abstruse, arcane, arcanum, beclouded, behind the curtain, behind the scenes, blind, buried, by stealth, cabala, cabalistic, camouflaged, censored, clandestine, classified, classified information, close, closed, closemouthed, clouded, concealed, confidence, confidential, confidential communication, confidentially, covered, covert, cryptic, cryptographic, dark, deep, deep-seated, devious, discreet, disguised, eclipsed, encrypted, enigma, enigmatic, esoteric, esoterica, evasive, furtive, furtively, genitals, guarded secret, heavy, hermetic, hermetics, hid, hidden, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, immanent, imperceptible, implanted, implicit, in a cloud, in a fog, in eclipse, in purdah, in secret, in the wings, inalienable, incommunicado, incomprehensible, indiscernible, indwelling, infixed, ingrained, inherent, inner, insensible, internal, intrinsic, invisible, inward, inwrought, irreducible, latent, lonesome, mysterious, mystery, mystery of mysteries, mystical, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, occult, on the sly, out of sight, out-of-the-way, parts, personal matter, private, private matter, private parts, privately, privates, privileged communication, privity, privy, privy parts, profound, profound secret, pudenda, quiet, quietly, recondite, remote, removed, resident, restricted, restricted information, retired, screened, sealed book, secluded, secluse, secretive, secretly, sequestered, shifty, shrouded, sightless, smothered, sneak, stealthily, stealthy, stifled, subjective, submerged, suppressed, surreptitious, surreptitiously, the occult, top secret, top-secret, transcendental, ulterior, unacknowledged, unalienable, unapparent, unbeheld, unbeholdable, unbreatheable, unchallengeable, uncommunicative, undeclared, under an eclipse, under cover, under house arrest, under security, under wraps, under-the-table, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded, underneath, undiscernible, undisclosable, undisclosed, undivulgable, undivulged, unknown, unnoticed, unobserved, unperceivable, unperceived, unpublishable, unpublished, unquestionable, unrealized, unrevealable, unrevealed, unseeable, unseen, unspoken, untellable, untold, unutterable, unuttered, unviewed, unwhisperable, unwitnessed, viewless, wrapped in clouds

Etymology
secrette: from secret: from  secretus: from ptp of secerno:, from Latin cerno, from. Or from securus:, from cura. Or cognat slavic kryt' (rus. сокрыть, сокровище) from greek κρύπτω, κρύβδην, κρύφα ("secret, hide, mystery").

Displaced native Middle English diȝel: "secret" (from Old English diegol: "secret"), Middle English derne: "dark, hidden, secret" (from Old English dierne: "dark, hidden, secret"), Middle English roune: "secret, secret counsel" (from Old English run:), Middle English hidel: "secrecy, secret" (from Old English hydels: "hiding-stow").

Noun

 * American Sign Language:
 * Arabic: (sirr)
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: sekretu
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese: 秘密 (mìmì)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Filipino: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: סוד (sod)
 * Hiligaynon:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: sekreto
 * Interlingua: secreto
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 비밀 (bimil)
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 비밀 (bimil)


 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian: noslēpums
 * Lithuanian: paslaptis
 * Macedonian:
 * Maltese: sigriet
 * Manx: folliaght
 * Mongolian: нууц
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: hemmelighet, løyndom
 * Nynorsk: løyndom, hemmelegheit
 * Old English:
 * Old Irish:
 * Persian: (raaz), سر
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: тайна, секрет
 * Scottish Gaelic:, cagar
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: sikreto, lihim
 * Telugu: రహస్యం (rahasyaM)
 * Thai: (kwaam láp)
 * Turkish:
 * Volapük: klän
 * Walloon: sicret
 * Welsh:
 * Welsh:

Adjective

 * American Sign Language:
 * Arabic: (sirri)
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: sekretu
 * Bengali: গোপন
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Catalan: secret
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Filipino:, , ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: סודי (sodi)
 * Hiligaynon:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: sekreta
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: secrete


 * Italian:
 * Lithuanian: slaptas, slapta
 * Macedonian: таен
 * Malay: rahsia
 * Norwegian:, skjult
 * Old English:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: secret, secretă , tainic , tainică ,
 * Russian: тайный, секретный
 * Scottish Gaelic:, prìobhaideach, uaigneach
 * Slovene:, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: sikreto, lihim,, lingid
 * Telugu: రహస్య (rahasya)
 * Thai: (láp)
 * Volapük: klänik
 * Walloon: sicret, sicrete
 * Welsh: cyfrin, dirgel
 * West Frisian: geheim

Anagrams

 * certes, erects, resect, terces

Adjective

 * 1) secret

Noun

 * 1) secret

Anagrams

 * certes, crêtes, terces