Secret

adjective

'sikrɪt

Adjective

not openly made known
“a secret marriage”
“a secret bride”
Similar:Unavowed
conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
“secret missions”
“a secret agent”
“secret sales of arms”
Similar:ClandestineCloak-and-daggerHole-and-cornerHugger-muggerHush-hush
designed to elude detection
“a secret passage”
“the secret compartment in the desk”
Similar:Hidden
hidden from general view or use
“a secret garden”
Similar:Privy Secluded
not expressed
“secret (or private) thoughts”
Similar:Private
(of information) given in confidence or in secret
“their secret communications”
Similar:Confidential
having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding
“the secret learning of the ancients”
Similar:Mysterious Mystic Mystical Occult Orphic
communicated covertly
“their secret signal was a wink”
“secret messages”
not open or public; kept private or not revealed
“a secret formula”
“secret ingredients”
“secret talks”
indulging only covertly
“a secret alcoholic”
the next to highest level of official classification for documents

something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
“it remains one of nature's secrets”
Similar:Enigma Mystery
Type of:Perplexity
information known only to a special group
“the secret of Cajun cooking”
Similar:Arcanum
Type of:InformationInfo
something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on)
“the combination to the safe was a secret”
“he tried to keep his drinking a secret”
Type of:InformationInfo