covert

Plural: coverts

Noun

• A thicket or other hiding place, especially for game.
• a flock of coots
• a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something
  • "the brush provided a covert for game"
• A covering.
• A disguise.
• A hiding place.
• Area of thick undergrowth where animals hide.
• A feather that covers the bases of flight feathers.

Adjective

• secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed
  • "covert actions by the CIA"
  • "covert funding for the rebels"

Adjective Satellite

• (of a wife) being under the protection of her husband
  • "a woman covert"

Adj

• Secret, surreptitious, concealed.
• Hidden, covered over; overgrown, sheltered.
• Under coverture.

Examples

• covert operations
• feme covert
• He kept his strategy covert, not revealing his high-scoring tiles until the last minute of Words With Friends.

Synonyms

concealment, cover, screen, abstruse, behind the scenes, catlike, clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, concealed, confidential, covert, covert baron, deep-laid, dern, disguised, furtive, huggermugger, hush-hush, incognito, inconspicuous, low profile, lurksome, lurky, mousy, obfuscated, off-the-books, on the down-low, on the sly, secret, secretive, slinky, sly, sneaky, stealthy, sub rosa, surreptitious, under the radar, under wraps, under-the-table, undercover, underground, unperceived

Antonyms

overt

Related Words

cover, deception, sneak

Anagrams of covert