Stealthy

Definition: Stealthy

Stealthy

Adjective

1. Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; "a furtive manner"; "a lurking prowler"; "a sneak attack"; "stealthy footsteps"; "a surreptitious glance at his watch"; "someone skulking in the shadows".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stealthy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1606. (references)

Note: Stealthy \Stealth"y\, adjective. [Comparative Stealthier; superlative Stealthiest.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Stealthy

Caution

Careful, heedful; cautelous, stealthy, chary, shy of, circumspect, prudent, discreet, politic; sure-footed; (skillful).

Concealment

Obreptitious, furtive, stealthy, feline; skulking; Verb: surreptitious, underhand, hole and corner; sly; (cunning).; secretive, evasive; reserved, reticent, uncommunicative, buttoned up; close, close as wax; taciturn.

Cunning

Adjective: cunning, crafty, artful; skillful; subtle, feline, vulpine; cunning as a fox, cunning as a serpent; deep, deep laid; profound; designing, contriving; intriguing;Verb: strategic, diplomatic, politic, Machiavelian, timeserving; artificial; tricky, tricksy; wily, sly, slim, insidious, stealthy; underhand; (hidden); subdolous; deceitful; slippery as an eel, evasive; crooked; arch, pawky, shrewd, acute; sharp, sharp as a tack, sharp as a needle; canny, astute, leery, knowing, up to snuff, too clever by half, not to be caught with chaff.

Crosswords: Stealthy

Look, we've got to be sly and stealthy, and you're too pissed. (S.O.B.; writing credit: Blake Edwards)

They come in force with stealthy stride. (The Pirates of Penzance; writing credit: William S. Gilbert; Wilford Leach)

So stealthy, so animal quiet (EMOTIONAL RESCUE; performing artist: Rolling Stones)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Candid Little Rock : from the stealthy cameras of Andrea Meurer, Louise Terzia, John Tuohey, Larry Mashburn, Kitty Mashburn, Jane Robison East (reference)

• Stealthy Days (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• A Stealthy Portion (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

But there is still the ruined wall, and, near it, the stealthy tread of the foe that would win over again his unforgotten triumph.

Then he went back to his room with stealthy tread.

He heard the high soft laughter of a night hawk and the stealthy movement of a creeping animal in the stubble.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

tinëzar (catlike, crafty, foxy, insidious, shifty, sly, sly person, slyboots, sneak, sneaky, underground, underhand), i pazhurmshëm (noiseless, quiet, still), 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, secret, secretive, sly, subterranean, under the counter, under the table, under wraps, undercover, underhand, underhanded, unearthly, veiled). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منجز خلسة, ‏مسترق (sneaky), ‏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, secret, slinking, subterranean, surreptitious, umbilical, undercover, underground, underhand), ‏عابر (ephemeral, fleeting, in transit, parlous, passing, precarious, sneak, tenuous, transient, transitory), ‏خفي (covert, cryptic, disguised, hidden, invisible, mysterious, occult, secret, surreptitious, ulterior, unseen, veiled). (various references)

Bulgarian 

тих (airless, breathless, calm, canny, dreamy, halcyon, low, noiseless, peaceful, placid, quiet, restful, silent, sleepy, slow, small, soft, still, stilly, tearless, tranquil, under, uneventful), потаен (cagey, cagy, covert, disingenuous, furtive, hush hush, inner, reserved, reticent, secret, secretive, sly, subterranean, underhand), плах (faint, furtive, mousey, nervy, pigeon-hearted, pusillanimous, timid, tremulous, wan). (various references)

Chinese 

隐身性. (various references)

Czech

tajný (clandestine, classified, confidential, furtive, hole-and-corner, inward, occult, privy, restricted, retired, secret, sneaking, surreptitious, undercover, underhand, underhanded, unspoken), nenápadný (inconspicuous, quiet, unobtrusive, unostentatious), kradmý (furtive, surreptitious). (various references)

Farsi 

یواشکی , زیرجلکی , دزدکی (Privy, Slinky, Snoopy). (various references)

Finnish

salavihkainen (furtive). (various references)

French

furtif, fait en secret. (various references)

German

heimliche (clandestinely, covertly, underhandedly), heimlich (clandestine, clandestinely, cryptical, furtive, hidden, inwardly, lurking, privately, quiet, secret, secretive, secretly, sneaking, stealthily, stolen, surreptitious, surreptitiously, thievishly, undeclared, undercover). (various references)

Greek 

κρύφιοσ (covert, cryptical, lurking, surreptitious, ulterior, underhand, underhanded), λαθραίοσ (clandestine, furtive, smuggled, stowaway, surreptitious). (various references)

Hebrew 

מת�'� ב (sneaky), חשאי (clandestine, discreet, inmost, quiet, secret, silent, sneaky, surreptitious, under cover, underhand). (various references)

Hungarian

titkos (clandestine, classified, confidential, covert, cryptic, esoteric, furtive, hidden, hole-and-corner, hugger mugger, hugger-mugger, hush hush, inner, lurky, mystic, occult, privy, secret, sneaking, surreptitious, top secret, undercover), rejtett (arcane, clandestine, concealed, covert, dormant, hidden, hooded, hugger-mugger, inner, latent, latent image, occult, perdu, potential, privy, recondite, surreptitious), lopva tett (surreptitious), óvatos (alert, be careful, cagey, cagy, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, conservative, discreet, fabian, guarded, heedful, prudent, reserved, wary). (various references)

Italian

nascosto (blind, cached, covert, cryptic, hidden, occult, sneaking, ulterior, underhand, unseen), furtivo (furtive, slinky, surreptitious), clandestino (backdoor, black, bootleg, clandestine, surreptitious, undercover, underground). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

忍びやか (secret). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しのびやか (secret). (various references)

Korean 

비밀스러운. (various references)

Manx

folliaghtagh (classified, confidential, esoteric, mysterious, secret, secretive). (various references)

Pig Latin

ealthystay

Portuguese

secreto (arcane, backdoor, blind, classified, close, confidential, cryptic, deep, hole-and-corner, inmost, inner, occult, offscreen, private, privy, sealed, secretive, sneaking, surreptitious, undercover, underhanded, under-the-table), furtivo (furtive, sneaking, surreptitious), escondido (close, furtive, hidden, hideaway, hush-hush, lam, offscreen, privy, secret, ulterior), dissimulado (artificial, covert, disingenuous, furtive, indirect, larval, latent, masked, off-stage, secretive, sneaking, underhanded). (various references)

Romanian

tainic (close, cover, covert, dark, hidden, inmost, inner, innermost, inside, intimate, isolated, mysterious, mysteriously, mystic, obscure, private, privy, quiet, secret), hoţesc (flash, furtive, roguish, thievish), furiş (furtive, hidden, secret, surreptitious), ascuns (abstruse, backstairs, blind, cagey, close, concealed, covert, cryptic, dark, furtive, hidden, masked, mystic, occult, postern, privy, q.t., quiet, recondite, secluded, secret, secretive, self contained, sneaking, sunken, ulterior, uncommunicative, underground, underhand, undiscovered). (various references)

Russian 

скрытый (arcane, clandestine, concealed, covert, cryptic, delitescent, dormant, esoteric, hidden, in disguise, inside, larval, latent, masked, obscure, occult, offstage, quiet, secret, supressed, ulterior), невидимый (invisible, sightless, unseen, viewless), бесшумный (noiseless). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

skriven (cachectic, delitescent, dormant, furtive, hidden, hole-and-corner, secret, sly, sneaky, surreptitious), tih (douce, halcyon, low, noiseless, peaceful, placid, quiet, still, stilly), tajni (backstage, furtive, private, privy, secret, sneaky, undercover), nečujan (inaudible). (various references)

Spanish

clandestino (clandestine, secret, surreptitious, undercover, underground, underhand), cauteloso (cagey, cagy, cautious, chary, gingerly, piker, precautious, shy, wary). (various references)

Swedish

smygande (crawl, insidious, sneaking, stealthily). (various references)

Thai

ซึ่งแอบทำลับๆ. (various references)

Turkish

kaçamak (casual, casually, escapade, evasion, evasive, furtive, hanky panky, loophole, run, running, salvo, shift, subterfuge, surreptitious), hırsızlama (furtive, furtively, sneaking, sneaky, surreptitious), gizli (arcane, back door, blind, camera, clandestine, classified, closet, concealed, confidential, covert, cryptic, cryptical, crypto-, disguised, esoteric, furtive, hidden, hole-and-corner, hugger mugger, huggermugger, hush hush, inner, intimate, latent, masked, occult, perdu, Perdue, private, privy, quiet, restricted, sealed, secluded, secret, secretly, slinky, sneaking, sneakingly, sneaky, snug, sub rosa, submerged, submersed, subterranean, subterraneous, surreptitious, ulterior, under cover, underarm, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded, undisclosed, unsearchable, unseen). (various references)

Turkmen 

яaюyryn (vague). (various references)

Ukrainian

та�"мний (arcane, back door, backstairs, clandestine, close, closet, colorable, colourable, covert, cryptic, esoteric, hideaway, hole-and-corner, hugger mugger, hush hush, invisible, mystic, occult, occulted, offscreen, private, secret, sly, sneaking, subterranean, surreptitious, undercover), прихований (arcane, blind, bosomed, close, closet, concealed, covert, cryptic, delitescent, furtive, glossy, hideaway, latent, obscure, obumbrate, occulted, privy, secret, ulterior, underneath, veiled). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vụng trộm (covert, sneaking, sneaky), lén lút (backstairs, hedge, hole-and-corner, rose, sideling, sneaking, sneaky, stealth, surreptitious), giấu giếm (clandestine, close, covert, sneaking, sneaky, undercover). (various references)

Welsh

llechwraidd (insidious, underhand), lladradaidd (furtive). (various references)

Misspellings

"Stealthy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Sealth, sealthy, skeilth, staelthy, stealithy, stealthly, stealty, steath, steathy, stelth, tealth. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: stately, stealth, stylate.

-2 letters: ethyls, halest, haslet, hyetal, latest, lathes, lattes, lysate, lyttae, lyttas, shaley, shelta, shelty, shtetl, slatey, stylet, thetas, tythes.

-3 letters: ethyl, haets, hales, halts, haste, hasty, hates, heals, heats, hylas, lathe, laths, lathy, latte, leash, least, lyase, lytta, salty, selah, setal, shale, shalt, shaly, sheal, slate, slaty, stale, state, steal.

+1 letter: ethylates.

+2 letters: hesitantly, methylates, stealthily.

+3 letters: methylators.

+4 letters: erythroblast, hesitatingly, methylations, shatteringly, thallophytes, theistically.

+5 letters: aesthetically, atheistically, erythroblasts, methacrylates, northeasterly, softheartedly, southeasterly, synthetically, yellowthroats.