ALL meanings of secret
se·cret
S s - adjective secret done, made, or conducted without the knowledge of others: secret negotiations. 1
- adjective secret kept from the knowledge of any but the initiated or privileged: a secret password. 1
- adjective secret faithful or cautious in keeping confidential matters confidential; close-mouthed; reticent. 1
- adjective secret designed or working to escape notice, knowledge, or observation: a secret drawer; the secret police. 1
- adjective secret secluded, sheltered, or withdrawn: a secret hiding place. 1
- adjective secret beyond ordinary human understanding; esoteric. 1
- adjective secret bearing the classification secret. limited to persons authorized to use information documents, etc., so classified. 1
- noun secret something that is or is kept secret, hidden, or concealed. 1
- noun secret a mystery: the secrets of nature. 1
- noun secret a reason or explanation not immediately or generally apparent. 1
- noun secret a method, formula, plan, etc., known only to the initiated or the few: the secret of happiness; a trade secret. 1
- noun secret a classification assigned to information, a document, etc., considered less vital to security than top-secret but more vital than confidential, and limiting its use to persons who have been cleared, as by various government agencies, as trustworthy to handle such material. Compare classification (def 5). 1
- noun secret (initial capital letter) Liturgy. a variable prayer in the Roman and other Latin liturgies, said inaudibly by the celebrant after the offertory and immediately before the preface. 1
- idioms secret in secret, unknown to others; in private; secretly: A resistance movement was already being organized in secret. 1
- noun secret sth confidential 1
- adjective secret confidential 1
- adjective secret hidden 1
- adjective secret mysterious 1
- adjective secret classified, not public 1
- adjective secret secluded, sheltered 1
- noun secret a mystery 1
- noun secret trade secret: method, plan 1
- noun secret military: classification 1
- adjective secret If something is secret, it is known about by only a small number of people, and is not told or shown to anyone else. 0
- countable noun secret A secret is a fact that is known by only a small number of people, and is not told to anyone else. 0
- singular noun secret If you say that a particular way of doing things is the secret of achieving something, you mean that it is the best or only way to achieve it. 0
- countable noun secret Something's secrets are the things about it which have never been fully explained. 0
- adjective secret kept hidden or separate from the knowledge of others 0
- adjective secret known only to initiates 0
- adjective secret hidden from general view or use 0
- adjective secret able or tending to keep things private or to oneself 0
- adjective secret operating without the knowledge of outsiders 0
- adjective secret outside the normal range of knowledge 0
- noun secret something kept or to be kept hidden 0
- noun secret something unrevealed; mystery 0
- noun secret an underlying explanation, reason, etc, that is not apparent 0
- noun secret a method, plan, etc, known only to initiates 0
- noun secret a variable prayer, part of the Mass, said by the celebrant after the offertory and before the preface 0
- adjective secret kept from public knowledge or from the knowledge of a certain person or persons 0
- adjective secret withdrawn, remote, or secluded 0
- adjective secret keeping one's affairs to oneself; secretive 0
- adjective secret beyond general knowledge or understanding; mysterious or esoteric 0
- adjective secret concealed from sight or notice; hidden 0
- adjective secret acting in secret 0
- noun secret something known only to a certain person or persons and purposely kept from the knowledge of others 0
- noun secret something not revealed, understood, or explained; mystery 0
- noun secret the true cause or explanation, regarded as not obvious 0
- noun secret a prayer said just before the Preface of the Mass 0