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单词 secretive
释义
secretive
adjective
mainlydisapproving
uk
/ˈsiː.krə.tɪv/us
/ˈsiː.krə.t̬ɪv/
People who are secretivehidetheirfeelings,thoughts,intentions, andactionsfrom otherpeople:
遮遮掩掩的；守口如瓶的
He's being very secretiveabouthis newgirlfriend.关于他的新女朋友他总是遮遮掩掩的。
Synonyms
close(SECRETIVE)
tight-lipped
Compare
keepmuminformal
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Secrecy and privacy
  • anonymity
  • anonymization
  • anonymize
  • anonymous
  • anonymously
  • cryptography
  • data protection
  • dead men tell no talesidiom
  • dissimulate
  • dissimulation
  • privacy settings
  • private
  • privately
  • privileged
  • pseudonym
  • undisclosed
  • whitewash
  • whitewashing
  • wrap
  • wrapped (up) in secrecyidiom
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Related words

secretively
secretiveness
(Definition ofsecretivefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

secretive| American Dictionary

secretive
adjective
us
/ˈsi·krɪ·t̬ɪv/
notwantingotherstoknow, or doneprivatelyso thatothersdo notknow:
secretivedealings
She’s secretive about herage.
(Definition ofsecretivefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsecretive

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Some of the more highly-placed declarants seemed positivelysecretive.
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Revealing patronage systems through reliable and complete data is not possible, since such systems aresecretiveand may incite ethnic conflict.
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Both studied cervids are wary,secretiveand solitary animals.
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Unlike its partial,secretiveand often arbitrary old regime counterpart, revolutionary law was both systematic, universal and transparent.
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Because policy networks have closed andsecretivedeliberations, international actors cannot make alliances with social actors who agreed with them more than government officials do.
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He describes a contentious andsecretiveprocess of the bottom+up (or middle+up) drafting of orders that eventually reach the emperor for approval.
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Conceivably, the use of contraceptives under such conditions may besecretiveand the chances are high that the instructions may not be followed faithfully.
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The consensus in the maltreatment field is one of victim underreporting, rather than overreporting, given the stigmatic andsecretivenature of maltreatment.
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Until then the privatisation process had been very slow and highlysecretive.
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Yet the number of local absences of rare orsecretivespecies was probably overestimated.
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It looks like the rathersecretivemanagers were the ones most responsible for the lack of communication between identity categories.
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This view of the language assecretivesuggests of course that a form of negative accommodation or bystander deixis belongs to its primary functions.
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Corridors are places for casual meetings, for passing others with barely a glance, or for furtive,secretive, and intimate moments.
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Secretivenetworks, however, are difficult to study, and tend to be unattractive candidates for rigorous social science research.
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As research becomes moresecretive, the possibility for peer review to be used as a basis from which research is assessed or evaluated diminishes.
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