secretive

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English secretife, equivalent to secret +‎ -ive.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsiːkɹɪtɪv/
- Audio (Southern England) (file)
(weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /ˈsiːkɹətɪv/

Adjective

secretive (comparative more secretive, superlative most secretive)

Having an inclination to secrecy
She's a secretive girl, not giving away much about her life.

Why are you acting all secretive? What are you hiding?

Synonyms

Derived terms

secretively

Translations

having an inclination to secrecy

Albanian: tinzar, tinëzar (sq)
Arabic: كَتُوم (katūm), مُتَحَفِّظ (mutaḥaffiẓ), مُتَكَتِّم (mutakattim)
Egyptian Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: գաղտնապահ (hy) (gaġtnapah), ծածկամիտ (hy) (cackamit)
Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: потаен (bg) (potaen)
Catalan: reservat
Chinese:
Mandarin: 保密的 (bǎo mì dē)
Czech: tajnůstkářský m, sekreční (cs)
Danish: hemmelighedsfuld (da)
Dutch: geheimzinnig (nl), gesloten (nl), gereserveerd (nl)
Esperanto: kaŝema
Finnish: salaperäinen (fi)
French: secret (fr) (nature), cachottier (fr) (behaviour)
German: verschlossen (de), heimlichtuerisch
Greek: κρυφός (el) m (kryfós)
Hebrew: חשאי (he) m (khashaí), נוטה לסודיות m (noté lesodiyút)
Hindi: please add this translation if you can
Hungarian: titokzatos (hu), titkolózó (hu)
Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
Latvian: noslēpumains
Lithuanian: slapùs
Maori: whakakumu
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hemmelighetsfull
Persian: please add this translation if you can
Polish: skryty (pl) m, tajemniczy (pl) m
Portuguese: reservado (pt)
Romanian: secretos (ro)
Russian: скры́тный (ru) (skrýtnyj), за́мкнутый (ru) (zámknutyj)
Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
Slovak: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: reservado (es)
Swedish: hemlighetsfull (sv)
Turkish: please add this translation if you can
Urdu: please add this translation if you can

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /səˈkɹiːtɪv/
- Audio (Southern England) (file)

Adjective

secretive (not comparable)

Relating to secretion

Anagrams

receivest, resective

Italian

Adjective

secretive

feminine plural of secretivo

Anagrams

escretive, riceveste

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