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Secret

adjective

1.

Not open or public; kept private or not revealed. "Secret ingredients" , "Secret talks"

2.

Conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods. Synonyms: clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, surreptitious, undercover, underground. "Cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines" , "Hole-and-corner intrigue" , "Secret missions" , "A secret agent" , "Secret sales of arms" , "Surreptitious mobilization of troops" , "An undercover investigation" , "Underground resistance"

3.

Not openly made known. Synonym: unavowed. "A secret bride"

4.

Communicated covertly. "Secret messages"

5.

Not expressed. Synonym: private.

6.

Designed to elude detection. Synonym: hidden. "A secret passage" , "The secret compartment in the desk"

7.

Hidden from general view or use. Synonyms: privy, secluded. "A secluded romantic spot" , "A secret garden"

8.

(of information) given in confidence or in secret. Synonym: confidential. "Their secret communications"

9.

Indulging only covertly.

10.

Having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding. Synonyms: mysterious, mystic, mystical, occult, orphic. "The mystical style of Blake" , "Occult lore" , "The secret learning of the ancients"

11.

The next to highest level of official classification for documents.

noun

1.

Something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on). "He tried to keep his drinking a secret"

2.

Information known only to a special group. Synonym: arcanum.

3.

Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained. Synonyms: closed book, enigma, mystery. "It remains one of nature's secrets"

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"Secret" Quotes from Famous Books

... I did now about Miss Hampton being Miss Buckner—or Mrs. Armstrong—and related to these Davises made me want to get away from there. Fur that secret made me feel kind of sneaking, like I wasn't being frank and open with them. Yet if I had of told 'em I would of felt sneakinger yet fur giving Miss Hampton away. I never got into a mix up that-a-way betwixt my conscience and my duty but what it made me feel awful uncomfortable. So I guessed ...

— Danny's Own Story • Don Marquis

... of our promises, she declined to fulfil this agreement, and the lake posts remained in her hands until the Jay treaty was ratified. She likewise consented to recognize the 31st parallel as our southern boundary, but by a secret article it was agreed that if by the negotiations she recovered West Florida, then the boundary should run about a hundred miles farther north, ending at the mouth of the Yazoo. The discovery of this secret article aroused great indignation in Spain. As a matter of fact, ...

— The Winning of the West, Volume Two - From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 • Theodore Roosevelt

... "I'll tell you a secret," he murmured; "this fellow is a great chief in his own country, but he doesn't want anyone to know it. He's coming here to learn a little of our ways, and he's particularly interested in English women, so be ...

— The Odds - And Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell

... her own men which were laid in out-chambers, and Sir Henry Benifield's soldiers appointed in their rooms to give attendance on her person. Whereat she being marvellously dismayed, thinking verily some secret mischief to be a-working towards her, called her gentleman-usher, and desired him with the rest of his company to pray for her. 'For this night,' quoth she, 'I think to die.' Wherewith, he being stricken ...

— Studies from Court and Cloister • J.M. Stone

... National Assembly were held; although only 75 of 150 members of the Transitional National Assembly were elected, the constitution stipulates that once past the transition stage, all members of the National Assembly will be elected by secret ballot of all eligible voters; National Assembly elections scheduled for December 2001 were ...

— The 2004 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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