American English pronunciation
How to pronounce secret
IPA transcription: ['sikɹət]
Pronunciation variants: ['sikɹət]['sikɹɪt]
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Noun
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something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
“how it got out is a mystery”
“it remains one of nature's secrets”
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something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on)
“the combination to the safe was a secret”
“he tried to keep his drinking a secret”
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information known only to a special group
“the secret of Cajun cooking”
Adjective
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not open or public; kept private or not revealed
“a secret formula”
“secret ingredients”
“secret talks”
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having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding
“mysterious symbols”
“the mystical style of Blake”
“occult lore”
“the secret learning of the ancients”
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conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
“clandestine intelligence operations”
“cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines”
“hole-and-corner intrigue”
“secret missions”
“a secret agent”
“secret sales of arms”
“surreptitious mobilization of troops”
“an undercover investigation”
“underground resistance”
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not openly made known
“a secret marriage”
“a secret bride”
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communicated covertly
“their secret signal was a wink”
“secret messages”
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not expressed
“secret (or private) thoughts”
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hidden from general view or use
“a privy place to rest and think”
“a secluded romantic spot”
“a secret garden”
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designed to elude detection
“a hidden room or place of concealment such as a priest hole”
“a secret passage”
“the secret compartment in the desk”
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(of information) given in confidence or in secret
“this arrangement must be kept confidential”
“their secret communications”
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indulging only covertly
“a secret alcoholic”
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the next to highest level of official classification for documents
Usage examples
- They had various secret bases across the globe.
- Gastric acid secretion happens in several steps.
- Skip prepares his escape through the secret opening, but Graham shows up, suspicious.
- He is the only press secretary to serve two full presidential terms.
- Stephen Moralee has now taken over as club secretary.
- Both of these entities are assisted in their tasks by a national secretariat.
- The non-secret parameters are called "salt" in this context.
- The secret is here in the present.
- Is it a secret?
- He remains the most successful National Secretary of the Labor Party ever.