Word Meanings - HIDDEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

from Hide. Concealed; put out of view; secret; not known; mysterious. Hidden fifths or octaves , consecutive fifths or octaves, not sounded, but suggested or implied in the parallel motion of two parts towards a fifth or an octave. Syn. -- Hidden,

Additional info about word: HIDDEN

from Hide. Concealed; put out of view; secret; not known; mysterious. Hidden fifths or octaves , consecutive fifths or octaves, not sounded, but suggested or implied in the parallel motion of two parts towards a fifth or an octave. Syn. -- Hidden, Secret, Covert. Hidden may denote either known to on one; as, a hidden disease; or intentionally concealed; as, a hidden purpose of revenge. Secret denotes that the thing is known only to the party or parties concerned; as, a secret conspiracy. Covert literally denotes what is not open or avowed; as, a covert plan; but is often applied to what we mean shall be understood, without openly expressing it; as, a covert allusion. Secret is opposed to known, and hidden to revealed. Bring to light the hidden things of darkness. 1 Cor. iv. 5. My heart, which by a secret harmony Still moves with thine, joined in connection sweet. Milton. By what best way, Whether of open war, or covert guile, We now debate. Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HIDDEN)

• Abstruse
• Hidden
• recondite
• difficult
• profound
• deep
• curious
• obscure
• mystical
• occult
• hard
• dark
• Clandestine
• Furtive
• secret
• stealthy
• surreptitious
• hidden
• disguised
• concealed
• private
• underhand
• Dark
• Black
• dusky
• sable
• swarthy
• opaque
• enigmatical
• abstruse
• unintelligible
• blind
• ignorant
• besotted
• benighted
• dim
• shadowy
• inexplicable
• mysterious
• murky
• nebulous
• cheerless
• dismal
• gloomy
• sombre
• joyless
• mournful
• sorrowful
• Inscrutable
• Unintelligible
• untraceable
• unfathomable
• insolvable
• impenetrable
• Latent
• Invisible
• inapparent
• unobserved
• undeveloped
• implicit
• potential
• inherent

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of HIDDEN)

• Reveal
• make known
• discover

Related words: (words related to HIDDEN)

• OCCULTISM
  A certain Oriental system of theosophy. A. P. Sinnett.
• OCCULT
  Hidden from the eye or the understanding; inviable; secret; concealed; unknown. It is of an occult kind, and is so insensible in its advances as to escape observation. I. Taylor. Occult line , a line drawn as a part of the construction of a figure
• OPAQUENESS
  The state or quality of being impervious to light; opacity. Dr. H. More.
• BLACK LETTER
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• OBSCURENESS
  Obscurity. Bp. Hall.
• SHADOWY
  1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon
• BLACKEN
  Etym: 1. To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope 2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole heavens." South. 3. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens
• INEXPLICABLE
  Not explicable; not explainable; incapable of being explained, interpreted, or accounted for; as, an inexplicable mystery. "An inexplicable scratching." Cowper. Their reason is disturbed; their views become vast and perplexed, to others
• IMPENETRABLENESS
  The quality of being impenetrable; impenetrability.
• MOURNFUL
  Full of sorrow; expressing, or intended to express, sorrow; mourning; grieving; sad; also, causing sorrow; saddening; grievous; as, a mournful person; mournful looks, tones, loss. -- Mourn"ful*ly, adv. -- Mourn"ful*ness, n. Syn. -- Sorrowful;
• INSOLVABLE
  1. Not solvable; insoluble; admitting no solution or explanation; as, an insolvable problem or difficulty. I. Watts. 2. Incapable of being paid or discharged, as debts. 3. Not capable of being loosed or disentangled; inextricable. "Bands
• OBSCURER
  One who, or that which, obscures.
• BESOTTINGLY
  In a besotting manner.
• BLACKWATER STATE
  Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• 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
• GLOOMY
  1. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. "Though hid in gloomiest shade." Milton. 2. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper
• 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.
• BLINDMAN'S BUFF
  A play in which one person is blindfolded, and tries to catch some one of the company and tell who it is. Surely he fancies I play at blindman's buff with him, for he thinks I never have my eyes open. Stillingfleet.
• DISGUISING
  A masque or masquerade.
• INDECOMPOSABLENESS
  Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• REPLEVISABLE
  Repleviable. Sir M. Hale.
• FRANKFORT BLACK
  . A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.
• INDISPENSABLENESS
  The state or quality of being indispensable, or absolutely necessary. S. Clarke.
• CLEANSABLE
  Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.
• IMPOSABLE
  Capable of being imposed or laid on. Hammond.
• ENIGMATIC; ENIGMATICAL
  Relating to or resembling an enigma; not easily explained or accounted for; darkly expressed; obscure; puzzling; as, an enigmatical answer.
• EQUIPOTENTIAL
  Having the same potential. Equipotential surface, a surface for which the potential is for all points of the surface constant. Level surfaces on the earth are equipotential.
• DISPENSABLE
  1. Capable of being dispensed or administered. 2. Capable of being dispensed with. Coleridge.
• DEMISABLE
  Capable of being leased; as, a demisable estate.