Secretive: alternatives and connections

Private; indirect; secret; intriguing; -- as if finding access by the back stairs.

A table at which a council or court is held. Hence: A council, convened for business, or any authorized assembly or meeting, public or…

Private end or interest; secret purpose; selfish advantage.

A number of persons united in some close design, usually to promote their private views and interests in church or state by intrigue;…

An open hunting ground to which game resorts, and which is private properly, thus differing from a forest, which is not private proper…

Conducted with secrecy; withdrawn from public notice, usually for an evil purpose; kept secret; hidden; private; underhand; as, a clan…

A private meeting; a close or secret assembly.

A secret opinion or purpose; a private matter.

Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised.

The act or art of writing in secret characters; also, secret characters, or cipher.

To translate from secret characters or ciphers into intelligible terms; as, to decipher a letter written in secret characters.

To make public; to several or communicate to the public; to tell (a secret) so that it may become generally known; to disclose; -- sai…

the act of disclosing something that was secret or private

the act of disclosing something that was secret or private

a secret listener to private conversations

Designed for, and understood by, the specially initiated alone; not communicated, or not intelligible, to the general body of follower…

The practice or employment of spies; the practice of watching the words and conduct of others, to make discoveries, as spies or secret…

To watch, as a receding object; to keep the eyes fixed upon while in motion; to keep the mind upon while in progress, as a speech, mus…