surreptitious
Meaning of surreptitious
- kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of.
low wages were supplemented by surreptitious payments from tradesmen
late Middle English (in the sense ‘obtained by suppression of the truth’): from Latin surreptitius (from the verb surripere, from sub- ‘secretly’ + rapere ‘seize’) + -ous.
Information about surreptitious
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of surreptitious
sur-rep-ti-tious
- It consists of 4 syllables and 13 chars.
- surreptitious is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
surreptitious synonyms
Meaning furtive:
furtive, sneak, sneaky, stealthy
Meaning clandestine:
clandestine, secret, undercover, underground
Meaning (of a person or an organization) inclined to conceal feelings and intentions or not to disclose information:
Meaning (of an action) surreptitious:
Meaning kept secret; hidden:
Meaning kept out of sight; concealed:
Meaning not openly acknowledged or displayed:
Meaning wearing or covered by a veil:
Meaning stairs at the back or side of a building:
Meaning not directly caused by or resulting from something:
Meaning of the very darkest colour owing to the absence of or complete absorption of light; the opposite of white:
surreptitious antonyms
Meaning (of bad behaviour) done openly and unashamedly:
Meaning allowing access, passage, or a view through an empty space; not closed or blocked:
Meaning free of deceit; truthful and sincere:
Translation of surreptitious
- French: furtif, subreptice
- Portuguese: furtivo
- Spanish: subrepticio, subrepticia, furtivo, furtiva
- German: verstohlen
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