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secretive
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information; "although they knew her whereabouts her friends kept close about it" [syn: close , closelipped , closemouthed , tightlipped ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Secretive \Se*cret"ive\, a. Tending to secrete, or to keep secret or private; as, a secretive disposition.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB so ▪ So why was the fortune-teller so secretive ? ▪ At least one dancer was surprised to learn that Alvin had a brother, so secretive was he about his life. ▪ She is so secretive she won't even say what the initials ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Having an inclination to secrecy.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"inclined to secrecy," 1815 (implied in secretiveness ); see secret (n.) + -ive . The word also was in Middle English with a sense "secret, hidden" (mid-15c.). Related: Secretively .
Usage examples of secretive.
They are not only secretive, appropriative, selfish, and self-defensive, but when redundant are aggressive and tend to destructiveness, the gratification of animal indulgence, intemperance, and debauchery.
The only man she had ever wanted badly enough to have an affair with was acting like the secretive, manipulative matrix-talent that he was.
The stronger they are, the more secretive, devious, manipulative, and downright sneaky they get.
If the previous set of travelers had been as secretive as he was, the odds were even better than good that they came from the Metallurgical Laboratory.
The Shrouders were little better, secretive minds cocooned inside shells of restructured spacetime.
Unseen by these mortals, Guilo and Triskal came hurriedly up the hill on foot, secretive and unglorified but moving like the wind nevertheless.
Hers is an unregimented, dangerous and highly secretive life that may suit her personality, but it frustrates Scarpetta and frightens her.
And there was always a sly, secretive mirth that whispered in his voice.
Words whispered from a text in an alien script and language older than man, lifting from script to voice, soft and secretive.
Those few Mexicans or Anglos who knew anything at all about the secretive desert dwellers left them alone for much the same reason.
Kyrie Eleison that Janice began to sense the first vague stirrings of interest and curiosity in the air - the secretive glances, smirks, and whisperings flitted about them like straws in a high wind.
Subconsciously I suppose I had been expecting either an aged and jowly gentleman in the Hogarthian tradition or a refugee from a Bronte novel, talk, dark, brooding, and secretive.
Now these holidays appeared to me in a morbid light, and I felt secretive, shameful.
Bos Kashi were the representatives of the Shan, secretive, dark-skinned little men whose sharp facial angles contrasted with their slanted eyes.
By 1964 an extremely violent, secretive new Klan faction called the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan was eclipsing the United Klans in Mississippi, attracting a membership of two thousand.