secret
What is the Definition of secret?
Noun:
- something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on)
- information known only to a special group
- something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
Adjective:
- not open or public; kept private or not revealed
- conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
- not openly made known
- communicated covertly
- not expressed
- or private
- designed to elude detection
- hidden from general view or use
- (of information)
- indulging only covertly
- having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding
- the next to highest level of official classification for documents
How can I use secret in a sentence?
He could not know that at this very moment, people meeting in secret all over the country were holding up their glasses and saying in hushed voices: To Harry Potter — the boy who lived!
Filch knew the secret passageways of the school better than anyone (except perhaps the Weasley twins) and could pop up as suddenly as any of the ghosts.
What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally, the whole school knows.
The Dursleys had everything they wanted, but they also had a secret, and their greatest fear was that somebody would discover it.
Hardly anyone had seen Harry play because Wood had decided that, as their secret weapon, Harry should be kept, well, secret.
Other meanings of secret (synonyms, cognates).
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