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Inclined to keep one's thoughts, feelings, and personal affairs to oneself.
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- Inclined to keep one's thoughts, feelings, and personal affairs to oneself.
- Silent or uncommunicative; disinclined to speak readily, often, specif., habitually so
- Restrained or reserved:
Habitually untalkative.
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- Habitually untalkative.
- Characterized by reserve or a lack of expression:
- Almost always silent; not liking to talk; uncommunicative
Alternative spelling of tight-lipped.
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- Alternative spelling of tight-lipped.
- Having the lips pressed together.
- Not saying much; taciturn or secretive
Done or acting in a stealthy manner, as if to hinder observation; surreptitious; stealthy; sneaky
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- Done or acting in a stealthy manner, as if to hinder observation; surreptitious; stealthy; sneaky
- Characterized by, acting with, or suggesting stealth or a desire to avoid discovery; surreptitious:
Employed or engaged in spying or secret investigation.
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- Employed or engaged in spying or secret investigation.
- Conducted in secret or through the use of subterfuge, as in a police investigation or in spying:
- Engaged or employed in undercover activity:
- (Not comparable) Set aside for the use of a particular person or party.
- Designated as unavailable except for a certain purpose or user; kept in reserve:
- Given to or marked by self-restraint and reticence:
Characterized by, acting with, or suggesting stealth or a desire to avoid discovery; surreptitious:
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- Characterized by, acting with, or suggesting stealth or a desire to avoid discovery; surreptitious:
- Done or acting in a stealthy manner, as if to hinder observation; surreptitious; stealthy; sneaky
(Dial.) Skillful or clever
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- (Dial.) Skillful or clever
- Stealthy or surreptitious:
- Playfully mischievous:
Acting in a stealthy, furtive way.
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- Acting in a stealthy, furtive way.
- Gradually growing or persistent:
- Not admitted or made known to others; secret
Of or like a sneak; underhanded
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- Of or like a sneak; underhanded
- Difficult to catch due to constantly outwitting the adversaries
- Furtive; surreptitious.
Done, gotten, made, etc. in a secret, stealthy way; clandestine
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- Done, gotten, made, etc. in a secret, stealthy way; clandestine
honest
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Find another word for secretive. In this page you can discover 23 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for secretive, like: reticent, taciturn, tight-lipped, furtive, undercover, with-bated-breath, in-private, in-the-dark, in chambers, by a side door and under the breath.
