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Definitions for Secretly

[1] done, made, or conducted without the knowledge of others: secret negotiations.
[2] kept from the knowledge of any but the initiated or privileged: a secret password.
[3] faithful or cautious in keeping confidential matters confidential; close-mouthed; reticent.
[4] designed or working to escape notice, knowledge, or observation: a secret drawer; the secret police.
[5] secluded, sheltered, or withdrawn: a secret hiding place.
[6] beyond ordinary human understanding; esoteric.
[7] (of information, a document, etc.) bearing the classification secret. limited to persons authorized to use information documents, etc., so classified.
[8] something that is or is kept secret, hidden, or concealed.
[9] a mystery: the secrets of nature.
[10] a reason or explanation not immediately or generally apparent.
[11] a method, formula, plan, etc., known only to the initiated or the few: the secret of happiness; a trade secret.
[12] 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) .
[13] (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.
[14] in secret , unknown to others; in private; secretly: A resistance movement was already being organized in secret.
[15] kept hidden or separate from the knowledge of others Related adjective: cryptic
[16] known only to initiates a secret password
[17] hidden from general view or use a secret garden
[18] able or tending to keep things private or to oneself
[19] operating without the knowledge of outsiders a secret society
[20] outside the normal range of knowledge
[21] something kept or to be kept hidden
[22] something unrevealed; mystery
[23] an underlying explanation, reason, etc, that is not apparent the secret of success
[24] a method, plan, etc, known only to initiates
[25] liturgy a variable prayer, part of the Mass, said by the celebrant after the offertory and before the preface
[26] in the secret among the people who know a secret

Words related to Secretly

secretquietly, clandestinely, surreptitiously, covertly, privately, personally, furtively, stealthily, confidentially, hush-hush, intimately, obscurely, slyly, insidiously, privily, unobserved

Words nearby Secretly

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Origin of Secretly

1350–1400; Middle English secrette < Old French secret < Latin sēcrētus hidden, orig. past participle of sēcernere to secern

Other words from Secretly

se·cret·ly , adverb
se·cret·ness , noun
non·se·cret , adjective, noun
non·se·cret·ly , adverb
qua·si-se·cret , adjective
qua·si-se·cret·ly , adverb
sem·i·se·cret , adjective
sem·i·se·cret·ly , adverb
su·per·se·cret , noun
ul·tra·se·cret , adjective
ul·tra·se·cret·ly , adverb
un·se·cret·ly , adverb

Word origin for Secretly

C14: via Old French from Latin sēcrētus concealed, from sēcernere to sift; see secern

Synonyms for Secretly

clandestinely, covertly, furtively, personally, privately, quietly, stealthily, surreptitiously, behind closed doors, behind someone's back, by stealth, confidentially, hush-hush, in camera, in confidence, in holes and corners, in secret, in strict confidence, insidiously, intimately, obscurely, on the QT, on the quiet, on the sly, privily, slyly, sub rosa, under the table, underhandedly, unobserved