'Veiled' definitions:
Definition of 'veiled'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Having or as if having a veil or concealing cover; "a veiled dancer"; "a veiled hat"; "veiled threats"; "veiled insults" [ant: unveiled]
adjective
Muted or unclear; "veiled sounds"; "the image is veiled or foggy"
Definition of 'Veiled'
From: GCIDE
- Veiled \Veiled\, a. Covered by, or as by, a veil; hidden. "Words used to convey a veiled meaning." --Earle. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Veiled'
From: GCIDE
- Veil \Veil\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Veiled; p. pr. & vb. n. Veiling.] [Cf. OF. veler, F. voiler, L. velarc. See Veil, n.] [Written also vail.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To throw a veil over; to cover with a veil. [1913 Webster]
- Her face was veiled; yet to my fancied sight, Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Fig.: To invest; to cover; to hide; to conceal. [1913 Webster]
- To keep your great pretenses veiled. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'veiled'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aleatoric,
- aleatory,
- amorphous,
- armored,
- between the lines,
- blobby,
- blurred,
- blurry,
- broad,
- cased,
- ceiled,
- chance,
- chancy,
- chaotic,
- cloaked,
- clouded,
- coated,
- concealed,
- confused,
- coped,
- covered,
- covert,
- cowled,
- cryptic,
- curtained,
- delitescent,
- disguised,
- disordered,
- dormant,
- eclipsed,
- encapsulated,
- encapsuled,
- encased,
- enveloped,
- enwrapped,
- esoteric,
- filmed,
- floored,
- foggy,
- fuzzy,
- general,
- hazy,
- hibernating,
- hidden,
- hit-or-miss,
- hooded,
- housed,
- ill-defined,
- imprecise,
- inaccurate,
- inchoate,
- incoherent,
- indecisive,
- indefinable,
- indefinite,
- indeterminable,
- indeterminate,
- indistinct,
- inexact,
- latent,
- lax,
- loose,
- loricate,
- loricated,
- lurking,
- mantled,
- masked,
- muffled,
- mystic,
- nonspecific,
- obfuscated,
- obscure,
- obscured,
- occult,
- occulted,
- orderless,
- packaged,
- paved,
- possible,
- potential,
- random,
- roofed-in,
- screened,
- scummed,
- secret,
- shaded,
- shadowed forth,
- shadowy,
- shady,
- shapeless,
- sheathed,
- shelled,
- shielded,
- shrouded,
- sleeping,
- stochastic,
- sub rosa,
- submerged,
- subtle,
- swathed,
- sweeping,
- tented,
- unclear,
- undefined,
- under cover,
- under the surface,
- underlying,
- undestined,
- undetermined,
- unmanifested,
- unplain,
- unrevealed,
- unspecified,
- vague,
- virtual,
- walled,
- walled-in,
- wrapped