Secret

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English

Noun

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

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Terms derived from secret (noun)

Adjective

Secret (comparative more Secret, superlative most Secret)

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

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secret (adjective)

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Verb

Secret (third-person singular simple present secrets, present participle secretting (UK) or secreting (US), simple past and past participle secretted (UK) or secreted (US))

  1. (transitive) To make or keep secret.
    • 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.
    • 1986, InfoWorld, InfoWorld Media Group, Inc.
      Diskless workstations [...] make it difficult for individuals to copy information [...] onto a diskette and secret it away.
    • 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.

Notes

  • All other dictionaries label this sense 'obsolete', but the citations above and on the citations page demonstrate recent usage.
  • The present participle and past forms secreting and secreted are liable to confusion with the corresponding heteronymous forms of the similar verb secrete.

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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

Middle English secrette from Old French secret from Latin sēcrētus (“separated, hidden”) from ptp of sēcernō (“separate, to set aside, sunder out”), from Latin cerno[1], from Proto-Indo-European *krei- [2] [3]. Or from Latin sēcūrus (“untroubled, carefree”), 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 dīegol "secret"), Middle English derne, deorne "dark, hidden, secret" (from Old English dierne "dark, hidden, secret"), Middle English roune, rowne "secret, secret counsel" (from Old English rūn), Middle English hidel "secrecy, secret" (from Old English hȳdels "hiding-stow").

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈsiːkɹət/
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  • Hyphenation: se‧cret

Translations

Noun

knowledge that is hidden

Adjective

being or kept hidden.

References

  1. ↑ George William Lemon. English etymology
  2. ↑ [1]
  3. ↑ [2]

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French

Adjective

Secret m. (f. secrète, m. plural Secrets, f. plural secrètes)

  1. secret

Noun

Secret m. (plural Secrets)

  1. secret

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