secretive

3 definitions found

secretive - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Secretive \Se*cret"ive\, a.
     Tending to secrete, or to keep secret or private; as, a
     secretive disposition.
     [1913 Webster]

secretive - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  secretive
      adj 1: inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging
             information; "although they knew her whereabouts her
             friends kept close about it" [syn: close,
             closelipped, closemouthed, secretive,
             tightlipped]

secretive - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  37 Moby Thesaurus words for "secretive":
     close, closemouthed, dark, discreet, disinclined to communicate,
     evasive, excretory, lachrymal, lachrymose, lacrimatory,
     lactational, lacteal, lacteous, meaningless, mum, reserved,
     reticent, rheumy, salivant, salivary, salivous, secret,
     secretional, secretory, seminal, serous, shifty, sialagogic,
     silent, spermatic, taciturn, tight-lipped, uncommunicative,
     unconversable, unsociable, watering, watery