[Sửa]Concealed, hidden, private, covert, shrouded,clandestine; confidential, covert, quiet, under cover,secretive, unpublishable, unpublished, Colloq hush-hush: Thereis a secret passageway leading from the cave to the cove. Keepsecret what I shall tell you. She revealed to me her most secretdesires. 2 cryptic, private, arcane, mysterious,incomprehensible, esoteric, recondite, abstruse; cryptographic,encrypted, encoded: We used to communicate by secret code. Didyou receive my secret message?
[Sửa]Private or confidential matter or affair, mystery: If Itell you my secret will you tell me yours?
[Sửa]In secret.privately, confidentially, secretly, on the q.t. or Q.T.;surreptitiously, under cover, by stealth, stealthily, furtively,quietly, on the sly, clandestinely: The office manager told mein secret that John was going to resign. They see one anotherin secret.
[Sửa]A valid but not commonly known or recognized methodof achieving or maintaining something (whats their secret?;correct breathing is the secret of good health).
[Sửa]RC Ch. aprayer concluding the offertory of the mass.
[Sửa]Secretly adv.[ME f. OF f. L secretus (adj.) separate, set apart f. secerneresecret- (as SE-, cernere sift)]