Secretive

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

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

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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