Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Marked by or acting with quiet, caution, and secrecy intended to avoid notice. See Synonyms at secret.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Done by stealth; accomplished clandestinely; unperceived; secret; furtive; sly.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Acting by stealth; sly; secretive in act or manner; employing concealed methods: as, a stealthy foe; characterized by concealment; furtive: as, a stealthy proceeding; a stealthy movement.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed
Etymologies
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Examples
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My neighbor snowmobiles and a couple years ago had an encounter where the wolves had killed a deer on the trail and did not seem very afraid at all when they took off within sight. (and how stealthy is a group of snowmobiles?)
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On the other hand, 09Droid could have rather easily programmed in stealthy code to silently steal account log-ins.
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Some woman's arm and hand has preceded mine in stealthy search after that fatal spring.
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Active reconnaissance operations are also classified as stealthy or aggressive, as discussed in the following paragraphs.
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Instantly he recalled the stealthy Indians that the boys had seen the previous day, and he sensed immediate danger.
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He did not stoop, but he bent rather forwards; his mode of walking was peculiar, and rather like that of a cat, but of a cat that was well acquainted with the ground it was moving over; the step showed no doubt or apprehension, it could hardly be called stealthy, but it glided on firmly and cautiously, without haste, or swagger, or unevenness ....
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His manner might have been called stealthy, if one were looking for stealth.
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The BrahMos, which has been described as a stealthy cruise missile that can deliver a 200 kg payload to a target 290 km away at speeds exceeding 2.8 Mach, has been in service with the Navy and was inducted into the Army in 2007.
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The Journal says experts believe the pictures show an aircraft designed to be "stealthy," or difficult to detect on radar, what is known as a 'fifth generation' fighter.
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Somewhat cloaked in all this are some elements the F-22 pushers do not seek to disseminate: US taxpayers are to pay for modifications of the aircraft to make it available for these foreign sales, and primary among those modifications is very likely to be a new design for the aircraft's so-called radar invisible ( "stealthy") skin.
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