'Secretive' definitions:
Definition of 'secretive'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information; "although they knew her whereabouts her friends kept close about it" [syn: close, closelipped, closemouthed, secretive, tightlipped]
Definition of 'Secretive'
From: GCIDE
- Secretive \Se*cret"ive\, a. Tending to secrete, or to keep secret or private; as, a secretive disposition. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'secretive'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- close,
- closemouthed,
- dark,
- discreet,
- disinclined to communicate,
- evasive,
- excretory,
- lachrymal,
- lachrymose,
- lacrimatory,
- lactational,
- lacteal,
- lacteous,
- meaningless,
- mum,
- reserved,
- reticent,
- rheumy,
- salivant,
- salivary,
- salivous,
- secret,
- secretional,
- secretory,
- seminal,
- serous,
- shifty,
- sialagogic,
- silent,
- spermatic,
- taciturn,
- tight-lipped,
- uncommunicative,
- unconversable,
- unsociable,
- watering,
- watery
Words containing 'Secretive'
- In secret,
- Secret,
- Secrete,
- Secreted,
- Secreting,
- Secretion,
- Secretiveness,
- Secretly,
- Secretness,
- secreter,
- secretively,
- Foot secretion,
- Paralytic secretion,
- Secret Service,
- Top secret,
- internal secretion,
- lachrymal secretion,
- lacrimal secretion,
- mucous secretion,
- open secret,
- secret agent,
- secret approval,
- secret ballot,
- secret code,
- secret language,
- secret place,
- secret plan,
- secret police,
- secret society,
- secret writing,
- trade secret,
- secret intelligence service,
- top-secret,
- us secret service,
- united states secret service,
- armenian secret army for the liberation of armenia