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Definition: Secret |
SecretAdjective1. Not open or public; kept private or not revealed; "a secret formula"; "secret ingredients"; "secret talks". 2. Conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods; "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". 3. Not openly made known; "a secret marriage"; "a secret bride". 4. Communicated covertly; "their a secret signal was a wink"; "secret messages". 5. Not expressed; "secret (or private) thoughts". 6. Designed to elude detection; "a hidden room or place of concealment such as a priest hole"; "a secret passage"; "the secret compartment in the desk". 7. Hidden from general view or use; "a privy place to rest and think"; "a secluded romantic spot"; "a secret garden". 8. (of information) given in confidence or in secret; "closet information"; "this arrangement must be kept confidential"; "their secret communications". 9. Indulging only covertly; "a closet alcoholic"; "closet liberals". 10. : having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding; "mysterious symbols"; "the mystical style of Blake"; "occult lore"; "the secret learning of the ancients". 11. : the next to highest level of official classification for documents. Noun1. 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". 2. Information known only to a special group; "the secret of Cajun cooking". 3. Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained; "how it got out is a mystery"; "it remains one of nature's secrets". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "secret" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Business | Means that the know-how, as a body or in the precise configuration and assembly of its components, is not generally known or easily accessible; it is not limited in the narrow sense that each individual component of the know-how should be totally unknown or unobtainable outside the franchisor's business. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | SECRET. He has been let into the secret: he has been cheated at gaming or horse-racing. He or she is in the grand secret, i.e. dead. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Classified information is data which, for one reason or another, has been deemed to require certain security measures to protect the range of its disclosure. Often, the viewing of such information by an individual requires that the person undergo a background check; after this is satisfactorily completed, he or she is then issued a security clearance.It is often the case that sensitive information is disseminated on the basis of a need to know, which is to say if an individual needs to know certain information in order to satisfactorily perform her or his function in the organization, their viewing of that information is authorized, otherwise it is not.
Such information is called "classified" because it falls into a certain classification of sensitivity. This sort of hierarchical system is used by virtually every national government, and by many corporations as well. The United States government, for example, has a formal hierarchy of classification for sensitive data:
Classified U.S. government documents are required to be stamped with their classification at the top and bottom of each page, and there are various other regulations for the handling and storage of such documents.
- Top secret – this is the highest security level, and is defined as information which would cause "exceptionally grave damage" to national security if disclosed to the public. This classification is most often subdivided on the basis of "need to know", and includes such information as the design of cutting-edge weaponry, etc.
- Secret – the second highest classification may include, for example, details of other security measures and procedures. It is defined as information which would cause "serious damage" to national security if disclosed.
- Confidential – is the lowest classification level. It is defined as information which would "damage" national security if disclosed.
- Sensitive but Unclassified (SBU) – data which is not related to national security but whose disclosure to the public could cause some harm; such data includes personal demographic information from recent censuses, for example.
- Unclassified – not technically a "classification", this is the default, and refers to information that is not sensitive and can be freely disclosed to the public. Information which was previously classified under one of the above levels is often declared "unclassified" at a certain time because its age has made its classification no longer necessary.
The classification scheme of course varies between organizations; for example, in Canada information which the U.S. would classify SBU is called "protected," and further subcategorized into levels A, B, and C.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Classified information."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Secrecy is hiding information from others.
Topics for an article on secrecy
See also:
- Animals generally endeavor to conceal the location of their den or nest from predators.
- Governments and corporations often attempt to conceal information about their operations from other governments.
- Preservation of secrets in one of the goals of information security.
- Secret keys are essential in most cryptography, which in turn has as its goal the hiding of secrets.
- Information hiding is a design principle in much software engineering.
- Keeping one's strategy secret is important in many aspects of game theory
- Secret societies -- why keep membership a secret? why not?
References:
- Confidentiality
- Deception
- Espionage
- Military secret
- Secret sharing
- Security classification
- Surprise
- Bruce Schneier, Secrets and Lies
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Secrecy."
Synonyms: SecretSynonyms: clandestine (adj), cloak-and-dagger (adj), closet(a) (adj), confidential (adj), hidden (adj), hole-and-corner(a) (adj), hugger-mugger (adj), hush-hush (adj), mysterious (adj), mystic (adj), mystical (adj), occult (adj), on the quiet(p) (adj), orphic (adj), private (adj), privy (adj), secluded (adj), surreptitious (adj), unavowed (adj), undercover (adj), underground (adj), arcanum (n), closed book (n), enigma (n), mystery (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Concealment | Latency; snake in the grass; secret; stowaway. |
Adjective: concealed; Verb: hidden; secret, recondite, mystic, cabalistic, occult, dark; cryptic, cryptical; private, privy, in petto, auricular, clandestine, close, inviolate; tortuous. | |
Interpretation | Translation; rendering, rendition; redition; literal translation, free translation; key; secret; clew; (indication); clavis, crib, pony, trot. |
Latency Implication | Snake in the grass; (pitfall); secret. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Secret |
| English words defined with "secret": in secret ♦ open secret ♦ secret ballot, secret code, secret plan ♦ trade secret. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "secret": Secret de Polichinelle, Secret Order. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "secret": Subingression. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Secret" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (close, closet, covert, cryptic, esoteric, hugger mugger, hush hush, in camera, inner, low key, off the record, privacy, privy, secrecy, secret, stealthiness, ulterior, undercover, wrap), Romanian (arcanum, close, confidential, cover, covertly, hidden, hugger mugger, internal, mysterious, mystery, occult, private, privy, quiet, reticence, secrecy, secret, secretly, ulterior, underground, undisclosed, unspoken, untold). |
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Screenplays | I wanna tell you a little secret, being the one is just like being in love (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski) Have I stepped over some line in the sands of coolness with you, because excuse me if somebody doesn't know the secret handshake with you. (Reality Bites; writing credit: Ben Stiller, written by Helen Childress.) You cannot pass I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the Flame of Anor (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh) You know what the secret of life is (City Slickers; writing credit: Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, and Billy Crystal) It's not a secret, it's a surprise (Die Another Day; writing credit: Neal Purvis) | |
Lyrics | But there's a secret garden she hides (SECRET GARDEN; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) Do you want to know a secret, (Do You Want to Know a Secret (Lennon/McCartney); performing artist: The Beatles) Ya never kept a secret, always stayed real (Dear Mama; performing artist: 2Pac) I been holding back this secret from you (Are You That Somebody; performing artist: Aaliyah) 'Cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room (32 Flavors; performing artist: Alana Davis) | |
Clever | The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. (references; author: Mark Twain) Don't be angry at a friend who told your secret, for neither could you keep it to yourself. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Le Secret des flamands (1974) The Top Secret Life of Edgar Briggs (1974) Paper Doors of a Secret Room (1973) I've Got a Secret (1972) Secret Witness (1972) | |
Song Titles | Secret Agent Man (performing artist: Johnny Rivers) Secret Rendezvous (performing artist: Karyn White) Secret of the Silent Hills (Lassie Theme) (performing artist: Lassie) Secret (performing artist: Madonna) Your Little Secret (performing artist: Melissa Etheridge) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | L'Homme Le Plus Fort du Monde déclare: Le Secret de ma Force Pas D'Alcool. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Peter-- I am going to let you in on a secret. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Carefully guarding his secret. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | This could be tougher than the secret army!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Secret service agents try to hold back the crowds that surge forward to watch President Johnson dance with the First Lady at the inaugural ball at the National Guard Armory [...]. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Counterfeiting plant seized by Secret Service at Monaca, Penn. U.S. District Attorney Charles F. Uhl viewing contraband. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Cumberland Landing, Va. Secret Service men at Foller's House. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Brandy Station, Va. Col. George H. Sharpe, John G. Babcock, unidentified, and Lt. Col. John McEntee, Secret Service officers at Army of the Potomac headquarters. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Spirit guarding the secret of the tomb. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Conversion. Rowing shells to life rafts. Though they look like satin cushions, these smoothly sanded instrument protectors are made from plywood. Exact purpose of the covers is a military secret. Workers in the foreground are fitting the door on a complet. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Secret garden" by Joanka Betlej Commentary: "Evening walk." | "Secret Pot Pourri 2" by Alex Furr Commentary: "Nice close up of some Pot Pourri in my bosses room. Had to sneak in while she wasn't around..." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Aristotle | The secret to humor is surprise. |
Benjamin Franklin | Three can keep a secret if two are dead. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The secret anniversaries of the heart. |
Jean De La Fontaine | Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret. |
John Dryden | Secret guilt by silence is betrayed. |
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus | Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature. |
Publius Cornelius Tacitus | Forbidden things have a secret charm. |
| Things forbidden have a secret charm. | |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret. |
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Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | It would nevertheless be wrong and imprudent to entrust the secret knowledge or experience of the atomic bomb, which the United States, Great Britain, and Canada now share, to the world organization, while it is still in its infancy. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
United Nations | 1948 | The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupery | It is such a secret place, the land of tears |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | The secret shall die with me. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Thou mayest cover up thy secret from the prying multitude |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It is an extraordinary secret. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He bore cynically with the shameful details of his secret riots in which he exulted to defile with patience whatever image had attracted his eyes |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | The secret mischiefs that I set abroach I lay unto the grievous charge of others |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | His secret eyes turned on his passenger |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | That minister had always been my secret enemy, though he outwardly caressed me more than was usual to the moroseness of his nature |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Water is often the secret to effective dust removal. (references) | |
Unconventional methods generally rely on reports by patients, don't discuss scientific data, and keep details of the treatment secret. (references) | ||
Business | Balloting in G.D.R. elections was not secret. (references) | |
Secret ballots are held when all parties agree. (references) | ||
The Government is elected on the basis of universal suffrage and secret balloting. (references) | ||
Children | Malawi | While rites to initiate girls into their future adult roles still are secret, information suggests that abusive practices are widespread and quite damaging. (references) |
United Kingdom | As part of a government drive to protect children from child abusers, previously secret registers of pedophiles are available to any employer who runs an organization where persons under age 18 could be at risk (schools, children's homes, or voluntary organizations). (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Israel and the occupied territories | For instance, in late March, authorities arrested Retired Brigadier General Yitzhak Ya'acov on charges that he had revealed secret information. (references) |
Economic History | Iran | The members are elected by direct and secret ballot. (references) |
Equatorial Guinea | Adult citizens elect officials by secret ballot in their towns and villages. (references) | |
Japan | There is universal adult suffrage with a secret ballot for all elective offices. (references) | |
Human Rights | Russia | Evidence in the case is secret. (references) |
Peru | Military courts may hold treason trials in secret. (references) | |
Iran | Secret or summary trials of 5 minutes duration occur. (references) | |
Political Economy | Western Sahara | Many of those who disappeared were held in secret detention camps. (references) |
Kenya | Universal suffrage exists for all citizens over 18. Voting is by secret ballot. (references) | |
PERU | Strikes may be called only after approval by a majority of all workers (union and non-union) voting by secret ballot. (references) | |
Political Rights | Guatemala | Ballots are secret. (references) |
Israel and the occupied territories | Elections are by secret ballot. (references) | |
Bhutan | Human rights activists state that there is no secret ballot. (references) | |
Travel | Argentina | Because evenings starts late and end late, the early evening nap is the secret to being functional the next day. (references) |
Nigeria | Persons contemplating business deals are strongly urged to check with the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Commerce, or the U.S. Secret Service before providing any information, making any financial commitments or traveling to Nigeria. (references) | |
Women | Sierra Leone | No law prohibits FGM. A number of NGO's are working to inform the public about the harmful health effects of FGM and to eradicate it; however, active resistance by secret societies countered the well-publicized international efforts against FGM. Prostitution is widespread. (references) |
Worker Rights | Jordan | Union officials are elected by secret ballot to 4-year terms. (references) |
El Salvador | Union members must approve a decision to strike through secret ballot. (references) | |
Mongolia | No arbitrary restrictions exist on who may be a union official; officers are elected by secret ballot. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DULLARD, n. A member of the reigning dynasty in letters and life. The Dullards came in with Adam, and being both numerous and sturdy have overrun the habitable world. The secret of their power is their insensibility to blows; tickle them with a bludgeon and they laugh with a platitude. The Dullards came originally from Boeotia, whence they were driven by stress of starvation, their dullness having blighted the crops. For some centuries they infested Philistia, and many of them are called Philistines to this day. In the turbulent times of the Crusades they withdrew thence and gradually overspread all Europe, occupying most of the high places in politics, art, literature, science and theology. Since a detachment of Dullards came over with the Pilgrims in the Mayflower and made a favorable report of the country, their increase by birth, immigration, and conversion has been rapid and steady. According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians. The intellectual centre of the race is somewhere about Peoria, Illinois, but the New England Dullard is the most shockingly moral. |
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Dennis Miller | Because the truth is, the secret to building the ideal American family has nothing to do with gender or genetics or color. |
Ellen Levin | Not really. There were several jurors that were very adamant that he should have been found guilty of murder, and there was one juror who, I believe, and I was told that seemed to have a secret crush on him, and that she was perhaps the one holdout. |
John McCain | Oh, yeah. Sure. The whole secret, as in most problems, is early detection. And every three months, I religiously visit my wonderful dermatologist. And she had this one worked on, and I'm sure she'll have more work ahead of her. |
Nellie Connally | Well, the Secret Service were racing around the car. And they were saying, Mr. President, Mr. President. They were trying to get Jackie, really, out of the car. They said, Ms. Kennedy, get out of the car. And she wouldn't get out of the car. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | His name may be still a rampart, and the knowledge that he lives a bulwark, against all open or secret enemies of his country's peace. |
Benjamin Harrison | 1889-1893 | The community that by concert, open or secret, among its citizens denies to a portion of its members their plain rights under the law has severed the only safe bond of social order and prosperity. |
Woodrow Wilson | 1913-1921 | With the great Government went many deep secret things which we too long delayed to look into and scrutinize with candid, fearless eyes. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Each time, from the secret places of the American heart, came forth the faith they could not see or that they could not even imagine. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | We have taken other significant initiatives which must remain secret to keep open some channels of communication which may still prove to be productive. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | I don't think it's a secret to anybody in this room that several members of the last Congress who voted for that aren't here tonight because they voted for it. |
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| "Secret" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 58.07% of the time. "Secret" is used about 3,521 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 58.07% | 2,045 | 4,238 |
| Noun (singular) | 41.79% | 1,471 | 5,511 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.14% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,521 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "secret". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Essa | N/A | N/A | Secret |
| Zephania | N/A | N/A | The Lord is my secret |
| Baal-zephon | N/A | Biblical | Secret |
| Belteshazzar | N/A | Biblical | Who lays up treasures in secret |
| Chorazin | N/A | Biblical | The secret |
| Elam | N/A | Biblical | A secret |
| Esther | N/A | Biblical | Secret |
| Meroz | N/A | Biblical | Secret |
| Nahbi | N/A | Biblical | Very secret |
| Pelaiah | N/A | Biblical | The Lord's secret or miracle |
| Pelonite | N/A | Biblical | Secret |
| Rezon | N/A | Biblical | Secret |
| Sanballat | N/A | Biblical | Enemy in secret |
| Sodi | N/A | Biblical | My secret |
| Sodom | N/A | Biblical | Their secret |
| Sud | N/A | Biblical | My secret |
| Tahapenes | N/A | Biblical | Secret temptation |
| Zephaniah | N/A | Biblical | The Lord is my secret |
| Esta | N/A | English | Secret |
| Hester | N/A | English | Secret |
| Zeph | N/A | English | The Lord is my secret |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "secret": an open secret ♦ as a secret ♦ as secret as the grave ♦ babble a secret ♦ be as secret as the grave ♦ be in a secret ♦ be in the secret ♦ betray a secret ♦ blurt out a secret ♦ bosom secret ♦ by secret ballot ♦ close secret ♦ disclose one's secret ♦ divulge a secret ♦ have secret dealings with smb. ♦ in secret ♦ in the secret ♦ into the eternal secret ♦ keep a secret ♦ keep secret ♦ keeping secret ♦ kept secret ♦ let one into a secret ♦ let smb. into the secret ♦ make no secret of ♦ military secret ♦ no secret ♦ nose out a secret ♦ official secret ♦ open secret ♦ puzzling secret ♦ reveal a secret ♦ say the secret ♦ secret agent ♦ secret agreement ♦ secret approval ♦ secret assembly ♦ secret ballot ♦ secret code ♦ secret desire ♦ secret fund ♦ secret key encipherment ♦ secret mark ♦ secret meeting ♦ secret message ♦ secret motive ♦ secret partner ♦ secret parts ♦ secret passage ♦ secret place ♦ secret plan ♦ secret police ♦ secret Service ♦ secret services ♦ secret session ♦ secret society ♦ secret trip ♦ secret vote ♦ secret voting ♦ secret writing ♦ tell a secret ♦ the secret of success ♦ the secret service ♦ the secret slipped out ♦ Top secret ♦ trade secret ♦ unburden oneself of a secret ♦ United States Secret Service ♦ worm a secret out of smb. ♦ yield a secret. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "secret": secret-agent, secret-fix, secret-laden, secret-police, secret-writing. | |
Ending with "secret": semi-secret, top-secret. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
victorias secret | 38,447 | parental secret | 489 |
search engine secret | 3,289 | aim secret | 453 |
kellys secret gallery | 1,836 | victoria secret catalog | 431 |
secret | 1,715 | kellys secret | 416 |
secret shopper | 1,564 | secret society | 386 |
victoria secret.com | 1,492 | trade secret | 343 |
harry potter and the chamber of secret | 1,178 | secret plot deep | 329 |
top secret recipe | 1,133 | beauty secret | 318 |
no secret | 1,038 | chamber cheat harry potter secret | 301 |
secret garden | 983 | top secret | 286 |
secret service | 922 | principal secret | 269 |
secret place | 903 | neopets secret | 262 |
victoria secret model | 864 | secret excellence | 261 |
chamber harry movie potter secret | 826 | chamber harry potter secret through walk | 228 |
secret of mana | 818 | coupon secret victorias | 224 |
victorias secret model | 695 | sex secret | 221 |
secret recipe | 607 | mana rom secret | 209 |
victory secret | 573 | secret admirer | 204 |
secret plot | 507 | gallery kelly secret | 182 |
secret of success | 498 | the secret life of bee | 175 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "secret"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | geheim. (various references) | |
Albanian | sekret (confidential, hidden, privity, undercover), mister (mystery, puzzle), i fshehur (backstage, concealed, hidden, latent, on the lam, privy, reserved), i fshehtë (backdoor, clandestine, close, colorable, colourable, confidential, cryptic, dark, deep, deep-seated, elfish, elvish, esoteric, furtive, hidden, hole-and-corner, insidious, internal, latent, occult, Perdue, private, privy, quiet, secretive, sly, stealthy, subterranean, under the counter, under the table, under wraps, undercover, underhand, underhanded, unearthly, veiled), i errët (abstruse, addle, ambiguous, arcane, black, blind, cloudy, dark, darkling, darksome, deep, delphian, delphic, dim, dingy, dusky, foggy, fuscous, gloomy, indeterminate, inky, low-browed, mirk, misted, muddy, murk, murky, nebulous, nigrescent, obscure, opaque, recondite, sable, sad, shady, somber, sombre, tenebrous), gojëkyçur (close-mouthed, dumb, mum), e fshehtë (confidence, mystery, secrecy). (various references) | |
Arabic | متكتم (close, reticent, secretive, shut in), معزل, لغز (clue, conundrum, enigma, mystery, mystify, mystique, puzzle, puzzlement, quiz, riddle), غموض (ambiguity, darkness, equivocation, fuzziness, haziness, mystery, mystification, nebulizer, obscurity, opacity, vagueness, weirdness), غامض (abstruse, ambiguous, cloudy, deep, dim, double faced, dreamy, enigmatic, evasive, fuzzy, grave, hazy, impenetrable, incomprehensible, indecisive, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, indistinguishable, inscrutable, intangible, lax, magic, magical, misty, mysterious, mystic, nebulous, obscure, occult, opaque, puzzling, recondite, shady, sketchy, slippery, sloppy, uncertain, unintelligible, vague, woolly), حاجب (brow, commissionaire, doorman, obstructive), سري (clandestine, classified, close, closet, confidential, covert, cryptic, discreet, furtive, hugger mugger, hush hush, inmost, low key, mysterious, mystic, occult, off the record, private, privy, sacramental, slinking, stealthy, subterranean, surreptitious, umbilical, undercover, underground, underhand), سر (breeze, brighten, delight, divert, gladden, gratify, mystery, please, pleasure, reserve, satisfy, steer), صلاة الأسرار, خفي (covert, cryptic, disguised, hidden, invisible, mysterious, occult, stealthy, surreptitious, ulterior, unseen, veiled). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | уединен (lone, lonely, obscure, private, recluse, retired, secluded, solitary, withdrawn), скрит (cagey, cagy, clandestine, close, covert, delitescent, dormant, furtive, hidden, implicit, implied, insidious, latent, occult, potential, private, privy, recondite, sneaking, snug, ulterior, underlying), секретен (occult), тайна (arcanum, confidence, dogbane, mystery, privacy, secrecy, whisper), таен (arcane, backdoor, clandestine, confidential, cryptic, dark, darkling, esoteric, hole-and-corner, hugger mugger, hush hush, inside, mystic, occult, private, privy, recondite, sensitive, sneaking, snug, surreptitious, undercover, underground, underhand), незаконен (false, illegal, illegitimate, illicit, irregular, lawless, outlaw, supposititious, undue, unlawful, wrongful), мълчалив (buttoned up, mum, mute, quiet, secretive, silent, taciturn, tight lipped, tongue tied, uncommunicative, unspoken), прикрит (backstage, covered, deep, disingenuous, oblique, occult), потаен (cagey, cagy, covert, disingenuous, furtive, hush hush, inner, reserved, reticent, secretive, sly, stealthy, subterranean, underhand), поверителен (classified, confidential, esoteric, hush hush, occult, private, privileged, privy, restricted), подмолен (factious, seditious, subversive, surreptitious, underground). (various references) | |
Chinese | 秘密 . (various references) | |
Czech | tajemství (mystery, secrecy). (various references) | |
Danish | hemmelig, hemmelighed. (various references) | |
Dutch | geheim (confidential), confidentie (confidence). (various references) | |
Esperanto | sekreto, sekreta, konfidenco (confidence). (various references) | |
Faeroese | loyniligur, loyndarmál. (various references) | |
Farsi | پوشیده (Covert, Impenetrable, Latent, Occult, Overcast, Recondite), محرمانه (Backside, Backstage, Esoteric, Private, Surreptitious), مخفی (Clandestine, Closet, Hid, Invisible, Slinky, Undercover), مجهول (Unbeknown, Unbeknownst, Unknown), نهانی (Last, Occult, Potential, Suberranean, Surreptitious, Undercover, Underhand), نهان (Covert, Recondite, Stealth, Ulterior), سر (Acme, Apex, Cabal, Chief, Corona, End, Extremity, Mystery, Pash, Pate, Plug, Point, Ruler, Thought, Top, Vertex), اسرارامیز (Mysterious, Numinous, Occult), رمز (Cipher, Code, Cranny, Crypt, Enigma, Mystery, Symbol, Token, Trick), راز (Cabal, Covert, Mystery), دستگاه سری . (various references) | |
Finnish | salaisuus, salainen (clandestine, concealed, confidential, hidden, underhand), sala. (various references) | |
French | secret (secrecy). (various references) | |
Frisian | geheim. (various references) | |
German | geheim (clandestine, confidential, intimate, occult, occultly, private, privy, restricted, ulterior, undercover), Geheimnis (mystery, recipe), heimlich (clandestine, clandestinely, cryptical, furtive, hidden, inwardly, lurking, privately, quiet, secretive, secretly, sneaking, stealthily, stealthy, stolen, surreptitious, surreptitiously, thievishly, undeclared, undercover). (various references) | |
Greek | μυστικό (arcanum). (various references) | |
Hebrew | הצנע (chasity, modesty), סודי (clandestine, classified, confidential, hush hush, privy, under cover, under wraps), סתר (hiding place, secrecy, stealth), רז (mystery), רזי (mysterious), טמיר (hidden, latent), סוד (consultation, counsel, deliberation, plastered), דבר סתר, מסתורין (mystery), כבשון (mystery), כמוס (concealed, hidden, inscrutable, latent, occult, ulterior), חשאי (clandestine, discreet, inmost, quiet, silent, sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious, under cover, underhand), עלום (hidden, hiding, unknown), תעלומה (enigma, mystery, mystique, puzzle, riddle), מסתר (mystery, secret place), גנוז (concealed, hermetic, hidden, latent). (various references) | |
Hungarian | titok (arcanum, mystery, privacy), titkos (clandestine, classified, confidential, covert, cryptic, esoteric, furtive, hidden, hole-and-corner, hugger mugger, hugger-mugger, hush hush, inner, lurky, mystic, occult, privy, sneaking, stealthy, surreptitious, top secret, undercover). (various references) | |
Indonesian | rahasia (confidential, covert, privy, undercover), gelap (black, dark, murky, unclear), batin (arcane, hidden, inner, internal, mental, mind, moral). (various references) | |
Italian | segreto (clandestine, classified, confidence, mystery, secretive, sneaking, underhand). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 窃か (private, surreptitious). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひそか (private, surreptitious), いんぜん (decree of cloistered emperor, imperial command, latent power, reality), かくしこと, かくしごと, うちうち (confidential, family circle, informal, private, the inside), まるひ (classified, confidential), ひとしれぬ (hidden, inward, unseen), ひとしれず (hidden, inward, unseen), ひみつ (secrecy), ひけつ (constipation, key, mysteries, negation, rejection, voting down), シークレット , ひでん (mystery, secret formula, urgent or express telegraph), たね (cause, copy, inside story, issue, kind, material, matter, offspring, paternal blood, pip, quality, seed, source, subject, theme, tone, trick, variety), きゅうしょ (key, tender spot, vitals), しのびやか (stealthy), ないぶん (confidential, private), ないしょ (internal evidence, kitchen, one's circumstances, privacy, secrecy, state of finances), ないしょう (internal evidence, internal wound, one's circumstances, prewar Home Minister, privacy, secrecy), ないない (confidential, family circle, informal, private, the inside), おうみょう, おくゆるし (diploma, initiation), おくのて (last resort, left hand, mystery, secret skills, trump card, upper hand), ひめごと. (various references) | |
Korean | 비밀 (Cryptic). (various references) | |
Manx | roonagh (ill intentioned; runic, malicious, malignant, perverse, stubborn, vicious, vindictive), keiltynagh (clandestine, concealer, latent, secretive, undivulged), keiltagh, follit (blind, blind of turning, bottled up, clandestine, classified, concealed, covert, cryptic, etc., etc.), hidden, hush-hush, latent, private, private and confidential, secreted, underground, veiled), folliaghtagh (classified, confidential, esoteric, mysterious, secretive, stealthy), folliaght (confidence, mystery, secrecy, stealthiness), follaghee. (various references) | |
Papiamen | sekretu, sekreto, misterio (enigma, puzzle, riddle). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ecretsay.(various references) | |
Polish | tajemnica. (various references) | |
Portuguese | segredo (arcanum, concealment, confidence, mystery, privacy, secrecy, whispering), secreto (arcane, backdoor, blind, classified, close, confidential, cryptic, deep, hole-and-corner, inmost, inner, occult, offscreen, priv |
