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Definition of Secretive
1. Adjective. Inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information. "Although they knew her whereabouts her friends kept close about it"
Similar to: Incommunicative, Uncommunicative
Derivative terms: Closeness, Secrete, Secretiveness, Secretiveness
Definition of Secretive
1. a. Tending to secrete, or to keep secret or private; as, a secretive disposition.
Definition of Secretive
1. Adjective. Having an inclination to secrecy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Secretive
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Secretive
Literary usage of Secretive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Reptile Book: A Comprehensive, Popularised Work on the Structure and by Raymond Lee Ditmars (1907)
"In adopting secretive and subterraneous habits they have gradually lost the
colours and size of the ancestral forms. These serpents are readily recognised ..."
2. Diseases of the Stomach: Their Special Pathology, Diagnosis, and Treatment by John Conrad Hemmeter (1902)
"SECTIONS OF DEEP ENDS OF FUNDUS GLANDS OF THK CAT IN DIFFERENT Secretive PHASES.
X looo.—(Bensley.) FIG. I.—From a fasting stomach. ..."
3. Literary News by L. Pylodet, Augusta Harriet (Garrigue) Leypoldt (1894)
"... blue-jay nestlings are taught to fly, and where the yellow-breasted chat, that
most craftily secretive of all birds, hides its nest of pearly-pink eggs? ..."
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