Word Meanings - COVERT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Under cover, authority or protection; as, a feme covert, a married woman who is considered as being under the protection and control of her husband. Covert way, See Covered way, under Covered. Syn. -- Hidden; secret; private; covered; disguised;

Additional info about word: COVERT

Under cover, authority or protection; as, a feme covert, a married woman who is considered as being under the protection and control of her husband. Covert way, See Covered way, under Covered. Syn. -- Hidden; secret; private; covered; disguised; insidious; concealed. See Hidden. (more info) 1. Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised. How covert matters may be best disclosed. Shak. Whether of open war or covert guile. Milton 2. Sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected; as, a covert nook. Wordsworth. Of either side the green, to plant a covert alley. Bacon.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COVERT)

• Refuge
• Protection
• shelter
• harbor
• asylum
• retreat
• covert
• hospitality
• sanctuary
• hiding-place
• Secret
• Hidden
• concealed
• secluded
• retired
• unseen
• unknown
• private
• obscure
• recondite
• latent
• clandestine
• privy
• unrevealed
• mysterious
• underdosed

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of COVERT)

• Eject
• expel
• discard
• discourage
• stifle
• exclude
• banish
• dismiss
• Reveal
• make known
• discover
• Expose
• surrender
• betray
• imperil
• endanger

Related words: (words related to COVERT)

• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• STIFLED
  Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.
• EJECTOR
  A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space. Ejector condenser , a condenser in which the vacuum is maintained by a jet pump. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.
• OBSCURENESS
  Obscurity. Bp. Hall.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• OBSCURER
  One who, or that which, obscures.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• SHELTERLESS
  Destitute of shelter or protection. Now sad and shelterless perhaps she lies. Rowe.
• SECRETE
  To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not known. Carpenter. Syn. -- To conceal; hide. See
• REFUGE
  1. Shelter or protection from danger or distress. Rocks, dens, and caves! But I in none of these Find place or refuge. Milton. We might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us. Heb. vi. 18. 2.
• CONCEALED
  Hidden; kept from sight; secreted. -- Con*ceal"ed*ly (, adv. -- Con*ceal"ed*ness, n. Concealed weapons , dangerous weapons so carried on the person as to be knowingly or willfully concealed from sight, -- a practice forbidden by statute.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• EJECTMENT
  A species of mixed action, which lies for the recovery of possession of real property, and damages and costs for the wrongful withholding of it. Wharton. (more info) 1. A casting out; a dispossession; an expulsion; ejection; as, the ejectment of
• PRIVATEERING
  Cruising in a privateer.
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• SECRETARY
  secretari, Sp. & Pg. secretario, It. secretario, segretario) LL. secretarius, originally, a confidant, one intrusted with secrets, 1. One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets. 2. A person employed to write orders, letters, dispatches, public
• HARBOR MASTER
  An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations respecting the use of a harbor.
• DISMISS
  1. To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away. He dismissed the assembly. Acts xix. 41. Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock. Cowper. Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs. Dryden.
• EXPOSEDNESS
  The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
• DISCOVERTURE
  A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.
• DEJECTION
  1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• DEJECTORY
  1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand.
• SUBOBSCURELY
  Somewhat obscurely or darkly. Donne.
• UNHARBOR
  To drive from harbor or shelter.
• INCONCEALABLE
  Not concealable. "Inconcealable imperfections." Sir T. Browne.