Surreptitious

//səˌɹɛpˈtɪʃəs//

Synonyms for "surreptitious" (97 found)

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Closest matches (20)

concealed stealthy artful back door back-door backstairs calculating chiseling clandestine cloak and dagger collusive covert covinous crafty cunning

Adjective(3 words)

abstruse covert dark

Adjective(2 words)

clandestine cloak-and-dagger

Strong matches (29)

deceitful devious doggo false falsehearted feline finagling fraudulent furtive guileful hidden hidden out hidlings hole-and-corner hugger mugger hugger-mugger hush-hush in ambush in hiding in the wings

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indirect insidious lurking

Adjective(2 words)

deep-laid mysterious

Adjective(4 words)

furtive hole-and-corner hugger-mugger hush-hush

Related words (48)

oblique on the sly on tiptoe private privy prowling pussyfoot pussyfooted quiet scheming secret secretive sharp shifty sidelong skulking slinking slinky slippery sly

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Adjective(6 words)

secret sneak sneaky stealthy undercover underground

Adjective(1 words)

sub rosa

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

Synonyms

2 entries

cloak and dagger stealthy

Related terms

2 entries

subreption surreptition

derived

4 entries

surreptitious advertisement surreptitious advertising surreptitiously surreptitiousness

related to

4 entries

covert furtive hidden stealth

similar

3 entries

concealed covert

Translations

59 translations across 24 languages.

Bulgarian

3 entries

подмолен adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)
прикрит adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)
таен adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)

Catalan

3 entries

clandestí adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)
furtiu adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)
subreptici adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries

偷偷摸摸 adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)
偷偷的 adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)

Czech

4 entries

skrytý adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)
tajný adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)
tutlaný adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)
utajovaný adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)

Dutch

4 entries

heimelijk adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)
steels adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)
stiekem adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)
verdekt adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)

Finnish

2 entries

salainen adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)
salamyhkäinen adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)

French

2 entries

furtif adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)
subreptice adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)

German

4 entries

betrügerisch adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)
erschlichen adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)
heimlich adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)
verdeckt adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)

Hungarian

1 entries

alattomos adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)

Icelandic

3 entries

laumulegur adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)
leynilegur adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)
í laumi adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)

Italian

4 entries

furbesco adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)
furtivo adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)
subdolo adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)
surrettizio adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)

Macedonian

2 entries

скри́шен adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)
та́ен adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)

Māori

1 entries

whakahewa adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)

Northern Kurdish

3 entries

dizîkî adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)
nehînî adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)
razberî adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)

Norwegian Bokmål

4 entries

dulgt adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)
fordekt adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)
hemmelig adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)
skjult adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)

Occitan

2 entries

furtiu adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)
subreptici adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)

Plautdietsch

1 entries

heemlich adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)

Polish

2 entries

dyskretny adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)
ukradkowy adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)

Portuguese

2 entries

furtivo adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)
sub-reptício adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)

Russian

2 entries

скры́тый adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)
та́йный adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)

Serbo-Croatian

1 entries

potajno adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)

Spanish

1 entries

subrepticio adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)

Swedish

1 entries

dold adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)

Ukrainian

2 entries

потайний adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)
таємний adj (stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert)

Sample sentences

5 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Spenser would not tell anyone his surreptitious plan to get back at his friends for pranking him.

Source: tatoeba (1949)

There is more than a fine line between unspoken rizz and surreptitious sexual harassment.

Source: tatoeba (11323259)

The surreptitious gesture went unnoticed by the rest of the room.

Source: tatoeba (11834113)

He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement.

Source: wiktionary

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