He was suspected of being active in a clandestine movement.
Source: tatoeba (5451288)
Clandestine
//klænˈdɛst(a)ɪn//
Synonyms for "clandestine" (91 found)
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Closest matches (19)
Strong matches (27)
Related words (45)
Adjective(19 words)
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Adjective(4 words)
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6 entriesderived
4 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
5 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
57 translations across 28 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- λαθραῖος adj (done or kept in secret)
Arabic
1 entries- سري adj (done or kept in secret)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- gizli adj (done or kept in secret)
- məxfi adj (done or kept in secret)
Bulgarian
2 entries- нелега́лен adj (done or kept in secret)
- та́ен adj (done or kept in secret)
Catalan
1 entries- clandestí adj (done or kept in secret)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 地下的 adj (done or kept in secret)
- 暗中的 adj (done or kept in secret)
- 秘密的 adj (done or kept in secret)
Czech
3 entries- tajný adj (done or kept in secret)
- utajený adj (done or kept in secret)
- utajovaný adj (done or kept in secret)
Dutch
3 entries- clandestien adj (done or kept in secret)
- geheim adj (done or kept in secret)
- heimelijk adj (done or kept in secret)
Finnish
1 entries- salainen adj (done or kept in secret)
French
1 entries- clandestin adj (done or kept in secret)
German
4 entries- geheim adj (done or kept in secret)
- heimlich adj (done or kept in secret)
- klammheimlich adj (done or kept in secret)
- klandestin adj (done or kept in secret)
Greek
3 entries- κρυφός adj (done or kept in secret)
- λαθραίος adj (done or kept in secret)
- μυστικός adj (done or kept in secret)
Hungarian
4 entries- illegális adj (done or kept in secret)
- rejtett adj (done or kept in secret)
- tilalmas adj (done or kept in secret)
- titkos adj (done or kept in secret)
Indonesian
2 entries- diam-diam adj (done or kept in secret)
- klandestin adj (done or kept in secret)
Italian
1 entries- clandestino adj (done or kept in secret)
Japanese
2 entries- 不法の adj (done or kept in secret)
- 秘密の adj (done or kept in secret)
Korean
1 entries- 은밀(隱密)하다 adj (done or kept in secret)
Latin
2 entries- clandestīnus adj (done or kept in secret)
- furtīvus adj (done or kept in secret)
Northern Kurdish
3 entries- dizîkî adj (done or kept in secret)
- nehênî adj (done or kept in secret)
- nepenî adj (done or kept in secret)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- heemlich adj (done or kept in secret)
Polish
4 entries- konspiracyjny adj (done or kept in secret)
- pokątny adj (done or kept in secret)
- tajny adj (done or kept in secret)
- ukryty adj (done or kept in secret)
Portuguese
1 entries- clandestino adj (done or kept in secret)
Romanian
1 entries- clandestin adj (done or kept in secret)
Russian
4 entries- нелега́льный adj (done or kept in secret)
- подпо́льный adj (done or kept in secret)
- секре́тный adj (done or kept in secret)
- та́йный adj (done or kept in secret)
Sanskrit
1 entries- रहस्य adj (done or kept in secret)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- skrìven adj (done or kept in secret)
- tajan adj (done or kept in secret)
- скрѝвен adj (done or kept in secret)
Spanish
1 entries- clandestino adj (done or kept in secret)
Welsh
1 entries- dirgel adj (done or kept in secret)
Sample sentences
20 total sentences available.
Sami and Layla began a clandestine relationship.
Source: tatoeba (6365969)
Money laundering is, by definition, a clandestine enterprise.
Source: tatoeba (9518657)
This birch grove is a very romantic spot for a clandestine rendezvous.
Source: tatoeba (10019455)
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