Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having or marked by an inclination to secrecy; not open, forthright, or frank. See Synonyms at silent.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Tending to secrete or keep secret; given to secrecy or concealment; reticent or reserved concerning one's own or another's affairs.
- Causing or promoting secretion.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having an inclination to secrecy.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Tending to secrete, or to keep secret or private.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information
Examples
“The congressman from Zulia state criticized what he called the "secretive" nature of the president's deliberation over the measure.”
The Wall Street Journal: Venezuela Plans to Move Reserve Funds
“For weeks, leading Democrats have castigated pro-Republican special interest groups involved in the current election campaign for what they describe as secretive fundraising practices.”
“Is a country that has long been secretive is having those secrets revealed by social networks?”
“Rep. Mike Ross, who flip-flopped on the public option and has authored an amendment that seems like a copycat of Max Baucus's no-good, terribly bad bill, has been in secretive talks with a Republican, Rep. Charles Boustany (R-LA), for weeks.”
“Oh well, so much said about that and yet I remain secretive about the specifics.”
“We could say secretive is better, but realistically for large applications you have to justify your every-move – for Apple and other companies it might happen within their own compounds, it still happends.”
“Part of what drives this notion of Putin as so secretive is that Yeltsin seemed to be such an accessible figure, particularly to the West.”
“The spot, which it will show in states including Michigan, North Carolina and Ohio, specifically cites the billionaire industrialists connected to Americans for Prosperity, Charles and David Koch, whom it describes as "secretive billionaires attacking President Obama.”
“This website is devoted to exposing the ruling elite's long-term secretive agenda of population reduction and in showing how each of us is unknowingly being targeted by such an agenda.”
“Mitt isn't being "secretive" -- he's just trying to keep his eye on the ball, which is politics and political issues.”
Huckabee: "Don't Mormons Believe That Jesus And The Devil Are Brothers?"
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘secretive’.
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WF - list of EN back-formations
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_back-formations
aborigine, accrete, acculturate, admix, admixture, adolesce, adsorb, adulate, advect, aesthete, air-condition, anticline and 212 more...
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Introverted
Quiet, shy, Introverted, reserved, isolated, mysterious
abashed, alienated, alone, anonymous, antisocial, ascetic, asocial, austere, autonomous, awkward, bashful, clannish and 91 more...
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RitaJKing's list
transparency
shimmer, fantastical, sansula, rapture, melancholy, obviated, parenthetically, apoplexy, indelible, pillory, demagogues, quark and 41 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Red
Words that describe the color red.
quick, adventurous, secretive, charismatic, bold, feirce, crisp, poignant, symbolic, misunderstood, understanding, surreptitious and 10 more...
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The Medley of Me
A jumble of words, sometimes contradictory, that add up to me. I'll probably be adding to this list for some time, because I'm a very complex individual. ;P
male, long-haired, big-eyed, writer, artist, guitarist, songsmith, talespinner, pilot, wannabe barnstormer, gypsy, cuddlesome and 209 more...
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mango22's Words
avalanche, apple, arrividerci, awry, adamant, asunder, barter, beloved, calm, cataclysmic, catastrophe, coat and 143 more...
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Mimi
sober, rhetoric, oratory, ergo, venom, diaphragm, Medieval, piety, incognito, ruse, calamity, evidence and 251 more...
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describe me
charming, afectionate, addictive, selfless, patience, drastic, fond, light-heeled, fragrant, delicate, care-free, natural and 95 more...
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Rita's List of Words
preliminary, rudimentary, stance, conduit, locale, implicit, vicissitude, empirical, repository, apophthegm, apothegm, invariable and 431 more...
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junestag's Words
postmodernism, cat, fish, rabbit, dell, coffee, elearning, mazda, php, mysql, flash, blogger and 755 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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words that go around
words that form a hollow, that stop for something, that slip around or between, that describe a space, that require a space, words that euphemize, words that navigate an absence.
lacuna, coracle, vena cava, caesura, escogitare, peripatetic, encircled, embrace, delineate, billow, hollowed, slip and 12 more...
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Words Against Bush (and/or his admini...
These are words that have been used, might have been used, or could be used in association with the current president and/or his administration. They are only listed as a device to remind the read...
cowboy, naive, ignorant, vengeful, vindictive, grudge, petulant, angry, bully, immature, inexperienced, afraid and 85 more...
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only the lonlies
about solitude and liking it
bashful, cautious, close-mouthed, wallflower, introverted, cold, collected, cool, demure, modest, offish, quiet and 30 more...
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Not the Clearest of Intentions
You ever try to read someone who can't be read? What is he thinking? What is he going to do? Whose side is he really on?
hidden agenda, doublespeak, backstabbing, treasonous, covert, mysterious, questionable, shady, flattering, sycophant, brownnose, secretive and 78 more...
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