COVERT as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something
   Synonym(s)
   • concealment (what does concealment mean?)
   • cover (what does cover mean?)
   • screen (what does screen mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • they crouched behind the screen
   • under cover of darkness
   Hypernyms(s) covert is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • covering (what does covering mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • blind (what does blind mean?)
   • camouflage (what does camouflage mean?)
   • shoji (what does shoji mean?)
   • stalking-horse (what does stalking-horse mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • cover (what does cover mean?)
   • cover (what does cover mean?)
   • spread over (what does spread over mean?)
   • cover (what does cover mean?)
2. Meaning
   • a flock of coots
   Hypernyms(s) covert is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • flock (what does flock mean?)

COVERT as ADJECTIVE

1. Meaning
   • secret or hidden
   • not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed
   Usage Example(s)
   • covert actions by the CIA
   • covert funding for the rebels
   Antonym(s)
   • overt (what does overt mean?)
   • open (what does open mean?)
   Similar To
   • backstair (what does backstair mean?)
   • backstairs (what does backstairs mean?)
   • furtive (what does furtive mean?)
   • black (what does black mean?)
   • clandestine (what does clandestine mean?)
   • cloak-and-dagger (what does cloak-and-dagger mean?)
   • hole-and-corner(a) (what does hole-and-corner(a) mean?)
   • hugger-mugger (what does hugger-mugger mean?)
   • hush-hush (what does hush-hush mean?)
   • on the quiet(p) (what does on the quiet(p) mean?)
   • secret (what does secret mean?)
   • surreptitious (what does surreptitious mean?)
   • undercover (what does undercover mean?)
   • underground (what does underground mean?)
   • closet(a) (what does closet(a) mean?)
   • secret (what does secret mean?)
   • collusive (what does collusive mean?)
   • conniving (what does conniving mean?)
   • cloaked (what does cloaked mean?)
   • disguised (what does disguised mean?)
   • masked (what does masked mean?)
   • secret (what does secret mean?)
   • sub-rosa (what does sub-rosa mean?)
   • under-the-table (what does under-the-table mean?)
   • behind-the-scenes (what does behind-the-scenes mean?)
   • subterranean (what does subterranean mean?)
   • subterraneous (what does subterraneous mean?)
   • ulterior (what does ulterior mean?)
   • under wraps(p) (what does under wraps(p) mean?)
   • undisclosed (what does undisclosed mean?)
   • unrevealed (what does unrevealed mean?)
   See Also
   • implicit (what does implicit mean?)
   • inexplicit (what does inexplicit mean?)
   • invisible (what does invisible mean?)
   • unseeable (what does unseeable mean?)
   • concealed (what does concealed mean?)
2. Meaning
   • of a wife
   • under the protection of her husband
   Similar To
   • protected (what does protected mean?)
   • secure (what does secure mean?)