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confidence |
confidence game |
confidence man |
confidence trick |
confident |
confidential
| confidential adviser-advisee relation
| confidential information
| confidentiality
| confidentially
| confidently
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confidential
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective confidential has 4 senses
- confidential(s = adj.all) Array - entrusted with private information and the confidence of another; "a confidential secretary" Derived form noun confidence4
- confidential(s = adj.all) secret - (of information) given in confidence or in secret; "this arrangement must be kept confidential"; "their secret communications" Derived forms noun confidence5, noun confidentiality2
- confidential(s = adj.all) Array - denoting confidence or intimacy; "a confidential approach"; "in confidential tone of voice" Derived form noun confidence2
- confidential(s = adj.all) Array - the level of official classification for documents next above restricted and below secret; available only to persons authorized to see documents so classified; Array Derived form noun confidentiality1
CIDE DICTIONARY
confidential, a. [Cf. F. confidentiel.].
- Enjoying, or treated with, confidence; trusted in; trustworthy; as, a confidential servant or clerk. [1913 Webster]
- Communicated in confidence; secret. Burke. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
confidential, adj.
1 spoken or written in confidence.
2 entrusted with secrets (a confidential secretary).
3 confiding.
1 spoken or written in confidence.
2 entrusted with secrets (a confidential secretary).
3 confiding.
Derivative
confidentiality n. confidentially adv.
THESAURUS
confidential
auricular, between us, chummy, classified, close, closet, esoteric, hush-hush, hushed, in petto, inside, intimate, not for publication, off the record, private, privileged, sealed, secret, thick, tried, trustworthy, trusty, under privilege, unpublishableROGET THESAURUS
confidential
Concealment
N concealment, hiding, occultation, mystification, seal of secrecy, screen, disguise, masquerade, masked battery, hiding place, cryptography, steganography, freemasonry, stealth, stealthiness, sneakiness, obreption, slyness, latitancy, latitation, seclusion, privacy, secrecy, secretness, incognita, reticence, reserve, mental reserve, reservation, arriere pensee, suppression, evasion, white lie, misprision, silence, suppression of truth, underhand dealing, closeness, secretiveness, mystery, latency, snake in the grass, secret, stowaway, concealed, hidden, secret, recondite, mystic, cabalistic, occult, dark, cryptic, cryptical, private, privy, in petto, auricular, clandestine, close, inviolate, tortuous, behind a screen, undercover, under an eclipse, in ambush, in hiding, in disguise, in a cloud, in a fog, in a mist, in a haze, in a dark corner, in the shade, in the dark, clouded, wrapped in clouds, wrapt in clouds, invisible, buried, underground, perdu, secluded, undisclosed &c, untold, covert, untraceable, mysterious, irrevealable, inviolable, confidential, esoteric, not to be spoken of, unmentionable, obreptitious, furtive, stealthy, feline, skulking, surreptitious, underhand, hole and corner, sly, secretive, evasive, reserved, reticent, uncommunicative, buttoned up, close, close as wax, taciturn, secretly, in secret, in private, in one's sleeve, in holes and corners, in the dark, januis clausis, with closed doors, a huis clos, hugger mugger, a la derobee, under the cloak of, under the rose, under the table, sub rosa, en tapinois, in the background, aside, on the sly, with bated breath, sotto voce, in a whisper, without beat of drum, a la sourdine, behind the veil, beyond mortal ken, beyond the grave, beyond the veil, hid from mortal vision, into the eternal secret, into the realms supersensible, into the supreme mystery, in confidence, in strict confidence, in strictest confidence, confidentially, between ourselves, between you and me, between you and me and the bedpost, entre nous, inter nos, under the seal of secrecy, a couvert, underhand, by stealth, like a thief in the night, stealthily, behind the scenes, behind the curtain, behind one's back, behind a screen, incognito, in camera, it must go no further, it will go no further, don't tell a soul, tell it not in Gath, nobody the wiser, alitur vitium vivitque tegendo, let it be tenable in your silence still, background information, deep background information, deep background, background session, backgrounder, not for attribution.Secret
N secret, dead secret, profound secret, arcanum, mystery, latency, Asian mystery, sealed book, secrets of the prison house, le desous des cartes, enigma, riddle, puzzle, nut to crack, conundrum, charade, rebus, logogriph, monogram, anagram, Sphinx, crux criticorum, maze, labyrinth, Hyrcynian wood, intricacy, meander, problem, paradox, unintelligibility, terra incognita, secret, involved, labyrinthine, labyrinthian, mazy, confidential, top secret.
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