Synonyms: screen, concealment, cover, covert
Definition: a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something
Usage: a screen of trees afforded privacy; under cover of darkness; the brush provided a covert for game; the simplest concealment is to match perfectly the color of the background
Similar words: covering
Definition: an artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it)
Synonyms: covert
Definition: a flock of coots
Similar words: flock
Definition: a group of birds
Synonyms: covert
Definition: secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed
Usage: covert actions by the CIA; covert funding for the rebels
Similar words: backstair, backstairs, furtive
Definition: secret and sly or sordid
Usage: backstairs gossip; his low backstairs cunning- A.L.Guerard; backstairs intimacies; furtive behavior
Similar words: black
Definition: (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading
Usage: black propaganda
Similar words: secret, undercover, underground, surreptitious, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, clandestine, cloak-and-dagger
Definition: conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
Usage: clandestine intelligence operations; cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines; hole-and-corner intrigue; secret missions; a secret agent; secret sales of arms; surreptitious mobilization of troops; an undercover investigation; underground resistance
Similar words: secret
Definition: indulging only covertly
Usage: a secret alcoholic
Similar words: collusive, conniving
Definition: acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end
Similar words: disguised, cloaked, masked
Definition: having its true character concealed with the intent of misleading
Usage: hidden agenda; masked threat
Similar words: secret
Definition: communicated covertly
Usage: their secret signal was a wink; secret messages
Similar words: under-the-table, sub-rosa, behind-the-scenes
Definition: designed and carried out secretly or confidentially
Usage: a sub-rosa report; has their under-the-table backing
Similar words: ulterior, subterranean, subterraneous
Definition: lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed)
Usage: subterranean motives for murder; looked too closely for an ulterior purpose in all knowledge- Bertrand Russell
Similar words: under wraps
Definition: kept secret
Usage: the plan was kept carefully under wraps
Similar words: undisclosed, unrevealed
Definition: not made known
Synonyms: covert
Definition: (of a wife) being under the protection of her husband
Usage: a woman covert
Similar words: protected
Definition: kept safe or defended from danger or injury or loss
Usage: the most protected spot I could find