SECRETS: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for SECRETS?

Need another word that means the same as “secrets”? Find 20 synonyms and 30 related words for “secrets” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Secrets” are: unavowed, clandestine, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, surreptitious, undercover, underground, privy, secluded, private, confidential, mysterious, mystic, mystical, occult, orphic, hidden, enigma, mystery, arcanum

Secrets as a Noun

Definitions of "Secrets" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “secrets” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• Something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on.
• Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained.
• Information known only to a special group.

Synonyms of "Secrets" as a noun (3 Words)

arcanum	Information known only to a special group.
enigma	A difficult problem. Madeleine was still an enigma to him.
mystery	A person or thing whose identity or nature is puzzling or unknown. A mystery guest.

Usage Examples of "Secrets" as a noun

• He tried to keep his drinking a secret.
• The combination to the safe was a secret.
• The secret of Cajun cooking.
• It remains one of nature's secrets.

Secrets as an Adjective

Definitions of "Secrets" as an adjective

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “secrets” as an adjective can have the following definitions:

• Not open or public; kept private or not revealed.
• Indulging only covertly.
• Conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods.
• Designed to elude detection.
• Communicated covertly.
• (of information) given in confidence or in secret.
• The next to highest level of official classification for documents.
• Not expressed.
• Not openly made known.
• Hidden from general view or use.
• Having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding.
• Given in confidence or in secret.

Synonyms of "Secrets" as an adjective (17 Words)

clandestine	Kept secret or done secretively, especially because illicit. She deserved better than these clandestine meetings.
confidential	Intended to be kept secret. In confidential tone of voice.
hidden	Designed to elude detection. Her hidden feelings.
hugger-mugger	Conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods.
hush-hush	Conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods.
mysterious	Difficult or impossible to understand, explain, or identify. Mysterious symbols.
mystic	Relating to or characteristic of mysticism. Mystical religion.
mystical	Concerned with the soul or the spirit, rather than with material things. Mystical theories about the securities market.
occult	(of blood) abnormally present, e.g. in faeces, but detectable only chemically or microscopically. The typically occult language of the time.
orphic	Ascribed to Orpheus or characteristic of ideas in works ascribed to Orpheus.
private	Concerning things deeply private and personal. All bedrooms have private facilities.
privy	Hidden from general view or use. He was no longer privy to her innermost thoughts.
secluded	(of a place) not seen or visited by many people; sheltered and private. A secluded romantic spot.
surreptitious	Conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods. A surreptitious glance at his watch.
unavowed	Not openly made known. An underlying unavowed hostility.
undercover	Involving secret work within a community or organization, especially for the purposes of police investigation or espionage. An undercover police operation.
underground	Relating to or denoting a group or movement seeking to explore alternative forms of lifestyle or artistic expression; radical and experimental. An underground car park.

Usage Examples of "Secrets" as an adjective

• The secret compartment in the desk.
• Secret missions.
• Secret talks.
• Secret ingredients.
• A secret garden.
• A secret bride.
• A secret agent.
• A secret marriage.
• Their secret communications.
• The secret learning of the ancients.
• A secret formula.
• A secret alcoholic.
• Their secret signal was a wink.
• Secret messages.
• Secret sales of arms.
• Secret (or private) thoughts.
• A secret passage.

Associations of "Secrets" (30 Words)

abstruse	Difficult to understand; obscure. An abstruse philosophical inquiry.
arcane	Requiring secret or mysterious knowledge. The arcane science of dowsing.
clandestine	Conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods. She deserved better than these clandestine meetings.
concealed	Not accessible to view. A concealed weapon.
covert	Secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed. Covert operations against the dictatorship.
den	A wild mammal s hidden home a lair. The cubs denned in the late autumn.
enigma	Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained. Madeleine was still an enigma to him.
enigmatic	Not clear to the understanding. An enigmatic smile.
esoteric	Intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest. Esoteric philosophical debates.
esoterica	Secrets known only to an initiated minority. A professor of such esoterica as angelology and comparative shamanism.
furtive	Secret and sly or sordid- A.L.Guerard. A furtive manner.
hidden	Designed to elude detection. Hidden valleys.
incognito	Without revealing one’s identity. She is locked in her incognito.
invisible	Invisible exports and imports. He lounged in a doorway invisible in the dark.
mystery	An incident in the life of Jesus or of a saint as a focus of devotion in the Roman Catholic Church, especially each of those commemorated during recitation of successive decades of the rosary. Much of her past is shrouded in mystery.
obscure	Make obscure or unclear. The big elm tree obscures our view of the valley.
occult	Supernatural forces and events and beings collectively. An occult ceremony.
private	The lowest rank in the army below lance corporal or private first class. If I could afford it I d go private.
recondite	(of a subject or knowledge) little known; abstruse. Some recondite problem in historiography.
riddle	Solve or explain a riddle to someone. He who knows not how to riddle.
secrecy	The trait of keeping things secret. The bidding is conducted in secrecy.
secretive	Inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information. She was very secretive about her past.
sly	Having or showing a cunning and deceitful nature. A sly manipulative woman.
sneak	Someone who prowls or sneaks about usually with unlawful intentions. Stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor s house.
stealthy	Behaving or done in a cautious and surreptitious manner, so as not to be seen or heard. Stealthy footsteps.
surreptitious	Kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of. Surreptitious mobilization of troops.
ulterior	Beyond or outside an area of immediate interest; remote. Without ulterior argument.
undercover	Conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods. An undercover investigation.
underhanded	Marked by deception. Underhanded practices.
unopened	Not yet opened or unsealed. Unopened Christmas presents.