Word Meanings - STEALTHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Done by stealth; accomplished clandestinely; unperceived; secret; furtive; sly. with his stealthy pace, . . . Moves like a ghost. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of STEALTHY)

• Clandestine
• Furtive
• secret
• stealthy
• surreptitious
• hidden
• disguised
• concealed
• private
• underhand
• Stealthy
• clandestine
• secretive
• sly
• Sly
• Cunning
• subtle
• crafty
• artful
• wily
• underhanded
• astute
• Surreptitious
• furtive
• unauthorized
• fraudulent

Related words: (words related to STEALTHY)

• CRAFTY
  1. Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous. "Crafty work." Piers Plowman. 2. Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful. A noble crafty man of trees. Wyclif. 3. Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily.
• 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
• ASTUTE
  Critically discerning; sagacious; shrewd; subtle; crafty. Syn. -- Keen; eagle-eyed; penetrating; skilled; discriminating; cunning; sagacious; subtle; wily; crafty. As*tute"ly, adv. -- As*tute"ness, n.
• 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.
• DISGUISING
  A masque or masquerade.
• CUNNINGNESS
  Quality of being cunning; craft.
• SUBTLE
  subtil, OF. soutil, later subtil, F. subtil, L. subtilis; probably, originally, woven fine, and fr. sub under + tela a web, fr. texere to 1. Sly in design; artful; cunning; insinuating; subtile; -- applied to persons; as, a subtle foe. "A subtle
• PRIVATEERING
  Cruising in a privateer.
• FURTIVE
  Stolen; obtained or characterized by stealth; sly; secret; stealthy; as, a furtive look. Prior. A hasty and furtive ceremony. Hallam.
• 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
• SECRET
  segreto), fr. L. secretus, p.p. of secrernere to put apart, to 1. Hidden; concealed; as, secret treasure; secret plans; a secret vow. Shak. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are revealed belong unto us. Deut.
• ARTFULNESS
  The quality of being artful; art; cunning; craft.
• CUNNINGLY
  In a cunning manner; with cunning.
• PRIVATEERSMAN
  An officer or seaman of a privateer.
• CUNNINGMAN
  A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries. Hudibras.
• ARTFUL
  1. Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill. "Artful strains." "Artful terms." Milton. 2. Artificial; imitative. Addison. 3. Using or exhibiting much art, skill, or contrivance; dexterous; skillful. He too artful a writer to set down
• SECRETNESS
  1. The state or quality of being secret, hid, or concealed. 2. Secretiveness; concealment. Donne.
• DISGUISEMENT
  Disguise. Spenser.
• 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,
• SECRETORY
  Secreting; performing, or connected with, the office secretion; secernent; as, secretory vessels, nerves. -- n.
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• INCONCEALABLE
  Not concealable. "Inconcealable imperfections." Sir T. Browne.
• STARTFULNESS
  Aptness to start.
• SUPERSUBTLE
  To subtle. Shak.
• UNCUNNINGLY
  Ignorantly.