Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of moving, proceeding, or acting in a covert way.
- n. The quality or characteristic of being furtive or covert.
- n. Archaic The act of stealing.
- adj. Not disclosing one's true ideology, affiliations, or positions: a stealth candidate.
- adj. Having or providing the ability to prevent detection by radar: a stealth bomber; stealth technology.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of stealing; theft.
- n. A thing stolen.
- n. A secret or clandestine method or proceeding; means secretly employed to gain an object; surreptitious way or manner: used in a good or a bad sense.
- n. A secret going; a stolen or clandestine visit.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable the attribute or characteristic of acting in secrecy, or in such a way that the actions are unnoticed or difficult to detect by others.
- n. archaic, countable an act of secrecy, especially one involving thievery
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete The act of stealing; theft.
- n. obsolete The thing stolen; stolen property.
- n. The bringing to pass anything in a secret or concealed manner; a secret procedure; a clandestine practice or action; -- in either a good or a bad sense.
WordNet 3.0
- n. avoiding detection by moving carefully
Etymologies
- Middle English stelth, probably from Old English *stǣlth. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“GERAGOS: The problem is what we call stealth jurors, jurors who lie to get on the jury because it's high profile, because they've got --”
“In cases as Danny had, in cases like that, where they are lengthy cases and there's pretrial publicity and ongoing publicity, it's virtually impossible to ferret out what I call stealth jurors.”
“CROAL: Well, the way the standard things in the game use buttons and things like that, but when you get in a position behind your opponent that's when you can carry out what they call the stealth kills or executions.”
“Russia disparaged what it called a stealth attempt to bring about regime change.”
“In Under the Radar, I had harsh things to say about start-ups that operate in "stealth mode.”
Energy Diversification, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“If you are in "stealth mode," then I suggest that you do the following:”
Wisdom from Ben Casnocha, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Your experience with losers saying they are in stealth mode shouldn't bias you against the entire concept.”
Wisdom from Ben Casnocha, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Entrepreneurs will say that they are operating in "stealth mode.”
Wisdom from Ben Casnocha, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“When he commented that he'd never heard of Omniture I told him we were in stealth marketing mode.”
“In Palo Alto, Calif., a nanotech startup that's still in stealth mode rents time remotely over the Internet for experiments using sophisticated electron microscopes -- devices it could never have afforded before.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘stealth’.
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Brand Theft Auto
A marque list for cars--models or companies who've used common words as their name.
explorer, navigator, frontier, mustang, quest, cougar, sidekick, legend, legacy, ranger, voyager, civic and 266 more...
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Skunk Works
Words associated with the legendary 'Skunk Works' Advanced Development Program at Lockheed Martin.
( open list, randomness )transonic, supersonic, hypersonic, x-plane, stratosphere, supercruise, thrust, liftoff, mach, stealth, afterburn, classified and 9 more...
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Hiding in plain sight
anticryptic, camouflage, chameleon, xenomorphic, obfusc, stegnographic, stealth, dissemble, dissimulate, mask, masquerade, screen and 27 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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nachchba's Words
stentorian, blasé, ennui, concinnity, melee, photokeratitis, skiffle, refulgence, mongrel, fakir, caid, eudaimonia and 215 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (S)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
sabian symbols, saffron, sagacious, sage, salamander, sally lunn, salmon, salsify, salt water taffy, samhain, sand dollar, sandalwood and 270 more...
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sneaky words
stealth, furtive, conclave, subterfuge, clandestine, circumspect, machiavellian
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kenzie's Words
epiphany, rhapsody, melody, cacophany, zenith, meticulous, sly, portent, synchronicity, juggernaut, evensong, script and 99 more...
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savage215's Words
pipe, yankee, knickerbocker, tennis, plasma, magma, volcano, car, truck, television, tv, word and 445 more...
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kant's Words
mandrágora, doppelganger, sinestesia, baladí, adriático, chanson, correveidile, angster, dèja vu, otredad, grasshopper, republic and 1074 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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circumscribe
silty, lettuce, ingratiate, circumscribe, defection, fastidious, indolently, mitigate, inwardness, twined, deference, mottled and 100 more...
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conceptwriter's Words
sloth, jackass, dickhead, technostalgic, futuristic, enigma, impact, addict, nasty, premium, extraordinaire, yearning and 262 more...
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horizon, echo, undulation, resonance, reflection, acoustic, swoosh, distant, glide, interspace, marbles, radiant and 144 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for stealth.
lampbane "She flies under the radar for a swift and unexpected attack, and any adversary caught unaware will get a swift lesson in shock and awe. Immensely strong and cool under pressure, she executes her favorite move -- a quick counter-attack that you never see coming."
(Official biography on the NBC American Gladiators website) Sep 6, 2008
grassdog Yep. Jan 19, 2007
sonofgroucho Is this the film you mean? Jan 11, 2007
grassdog Great word. Horrible film. Jan 11, 2007