Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Concealment

Nouns
Verbs
  • conceal, hide, secrete, put out of sight
  • lock up, seal up, bottle up. encrypt, encode, cipher. cover, screen, cloak, veil, shroud
  • cover up one's tracks
  • screen from sight, screen from observation
  • drawing the veil
  • draw the curtain, close the curtain
  • curtain, shade, eclipse, throw a view over
  • be cloud, be mask
  • mask, disguise
  • ensconce, muffle, smother
  • befog
  • whisper. keep from
  • keep back, keep to oneself
  • keep snug, keep close, keep secret, keep dark
  • bury
  • sink, suppress
  • keep from, keep from out of view, keep from out of sight
  • keep in the shade, throw into the shade, throw into background
  • stifle, hush up, smother, withhold, reserve
  • fence with a question
  • ignore etc. Neglect. keep a secret, keep one's own counsel
  • hold one's tongue etc. (silence) Taciturnity
  • make no sign, not let it go further
  • not breathe a word, not breathe a syllable about
  • not let the right hand know what the left is not let the right hand know what the left is doing
  • hide one's light under a bushel, bury one's talent in a napkin. keep in the dark, leave in the dark, keep in the ignorance
  • blind, blind the eyes
  • blindfold, hoodwink, mystify
  • puzzle etc. (render uncertain) Uncertainty
  • bamboozle etc. (deceive) Deception. be concealed etc. v.
  • suffer an eclipse
  • retire from sight, couch
  • hide oneself
  • lie hid, lie in close
  • lie in ambush (ambush) Ambush [Means of concealment].
  • seclude oneself etc. Seclusion. Exclusion
  • lurk, sneak, skulk, slink, prowl
  • steal into, steal out of, steal by, steal along
  • play at bopeep, play at hide and seek
  • hide in holes and corners
  • still hunt.
Adjectives
  • concealed etc. v.
  • hidden
  • secret, recondite, mystic, cabalistic, occult, dark
  • cryptic, cryptical
  • private, privy, in petto, auricular, clandestine, close, inviolate
  • tortuous. behind a screen etc. Ambush [Means of concealment].
  • undercover, under an eclipse
  • in ambush, in hiding, in disguise
  • in a cloud, in a fog, in a mist, in a haze, in a dark corner
  • in the shade, in the dark
  • clouded, wrapped in clouds, wrapt in clouds
  • invisible etc. Invisibility
  • buried, underground
  • secluded etc. Seclusion. Exclusion. undisclosed etc. Disclosure, untold etc. Information
  • covert etc. (latent) Latency. Implication
  • untraceable
  • mysterious etc. (unintelligible) Unintelligibility. irrevealable, inviolable
  • confidential
  • esoteric
  • not to be spoken of
  • unmentionable. obreptitious, furtive, stealthy, feline
  • skulking etc. v.
  • surreptitious, underhand, hole and corner
  • sly etc. (cunning) Cunning
  • secretive, evasive
  • reserved, reticent, uncommunicative, buttoned up
  • close, close as wax
  • taciturn etc. Taciturnity.
Adverbs
  • secretly etc. adj.
  • in secret, in private, in one's sleeve, in holes and corners
  • with closed doors
  • hugger mugger
  • under the cloak of, under the rose, under the table
  • in the background, aside, on the sly, with bated breath, in a whisper, without beat of drum, a la sourdine. behind the veil
  • beyond mortal ken, beyond the grave, beyond the veil
  • hid from mortal vision
  • into the eternal secret, into the realms supersensible, into the supreme mystery. in confidence, in strict confidence, in strictest confidence
  • confidentially etc. adj.
  • between ourselves, between you and me
  • between you and me and the bedpost
  • inter nos, under the seal of secrecy
  • by stealth, like a thief in the night
  • stealthily etc. adj.
  • behind the scenes, behind the curtain, behind one's back, behind a screen etc. Ambush [Means of concealment].
  • incognito
  • in camera.
Phrases
  • it must go no further, it will go no further
  • don't tell a soul
  • tell it not in Gath, " nobody the wiser
  • let it be tenable in your silence still" [Hamlet]. [confidential disclosure to news reporters] background information, deep background information, deep background
  • background session, backgrounder
  • not for attribution