Covert

[n] a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something; "they crouched behind the screen"; "under cover of darkness"
[n] a flock of coots
[adj] secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; "covert actions by the CIA"; "covert funding for the rebels"
[adj] (law) of a wife; under the protection of her husband

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Synonyms

backstair, backstairs, black, clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, cloaked, closet(a), collusive, concealment, conniving, cover, disguised, furtive, hole-and-corner(a), hugger-mugger, hush-hush, masked, on the quiet(p), protected, screen, secret, secure, sub-ro

Antonyms

open, overt

Related Terms

abri, abstruse, air-raid shelter, armored, asylum, back-door, backstairs, beclouded, between the lines, blanket, blind, bolt-hole, bomb shelter, bombproof, boscage, bosket, brake, bunker, buried, burrow, by stealth, cache, camouflaged, canebrake, cased, c