Usually means: Secretive, hidden from public view.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. clandestine: Merriam-Webster
  2. clandestine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. clandestine: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. clandestine: Collins English Dictionary
  5. clandestine: Vocabulary.com
  6. Clandestine, clandestine: Wordnik
  7. clandestine: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. clandestine: Wiktionary
  9. clandestine: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. clandestine: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. clandestine: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Clandestine, clandestine: Dictionary.com
  13. clandestine: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. clandestine: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. ClanDestine, Clandestine (album), Clandestine (band), Clandestine (novel), Clandestine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Clandestine: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. clandestine: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. clandestine: Rhymezone
  19. clandestine: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. clandestine: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. clandestine: FreeDictionary.org
  22. clandestine: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. clandestine: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. clandestine: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. clandestine: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. clandestine: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clandestine: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CLANDESTINE: Masonic Dictionary

(Note: See clandestinely as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Done or kept in secret, sometimes to conceal an illicit or improper purpose.
▸ adjective:  (Freemasonry, of a person or lodge) Not recognized as a regular member.

Similar:
hole-and-corner, cloak-and-dagger, undercover, covert, on the quiet, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, surreptitious, secret, underground, more...

Opposite:
overt, public, known

Types:
covert, more...

Phrases:
clandestine operations, clandestine marriage, clandestine service, Clandestine operation, Defense Clandestine Service, more...

Adjectives:
more, little, various, first, longer, emphatical, own, large, only, certain, private

Colors:
    midnight blue,     charcoal,     obsidian,     deep plum,     shadow gray, more...


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Similar:
hole-and-corner, cloak-and-dagger, undercover, covert, on the quiet, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, surreptitious, secret, underground, more...

Opposite:
overt, public, known

Types:
covert, more...

Phrases:
clandestine operations, clandestine marriage, clandestine service, Clandestine operation, Defense Clandestine Service, Clandestine cell system, Clandestine chemistry, Clandestine Blaze, more...

Adjectives:
more, little, various, first, longer, emphatical, own, large, only, certain, private

Colors:
    midnight blue,     charcoal,     obsidian,     deep plum,     shadow gray, more...



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