sec | (adjective) (of champagne) moderately dry | Synonyms: unsweet |
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secluded | (adjective) hidden from general view or use | Synonyms: privy, secret |
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(adjective) providing privacy or seclusion | Synonyms: cloistered, reclusive, sequestered |
second | (adjective) a part or voice or instrument or orchestra section lower in pitch than or subordinate to the first | - |
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(adjective) coming next after the first in position in space or time or degree or magnitude | Synonyms: 2d, 2nd |
secondary | (adjective) being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate | - |
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(adjective) depending on or incidental to what is original or primary | - |
(adjective) inferior in rank or status | Synonyms: junior-grade, lower-ranking, lowly, petty, subaltern |
(adjective) not of major importance | - |
(adjective) belonging to a lower class or rank | - |
secondhand | (adjective) previously used or owned by another | Synonyms: used |
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(adjective) derived from what is primary or original; not firsthand | - |
secret | (adjective) the next to highest level of official classification for documents | - |
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(adjective) not open or public; kept private or not revealed | - |
(adjective) having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding | Synonyms: mysterious, mystic, mystical, occult, orphic |
(adjective) not expressed | Synonyms: private |
(adjective) (of information) given in confidence or in secret | Synonyms: confidential |
(adjective) not openly made known | Synonyms: unavowed |
(adjective) conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods | Synonyms: clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, surreptitious, undercover, underground |
(adjective) designed to elude detection | Synonyms: hidden |
(adjective) indulging only covertly | - |
(adjective) hidden from general view or use | Synonyms: privy, secluded |
(adjective) communicated covertly | - |
secretarial | (adjective) of or relating to a secretary or to a secretary's work | - |
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secretive | (adjective) inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information | Synonyms: close, closelipped, closemouthed, tightlipped |
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secretory | (adjective) of or relating to or producing a secretion | - |
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sectarian | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a sect or sects | - |
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sectional | (adjective) relating to or based upon a section (i.e. as if cut through by an intersecting plane) | - |
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(adjective) consisting of or divided into sections | Synonyms: sectioned |
(adjective) related or limited to a distinct region or subdivision of a territory or community or group of people | - |
sectioned | (adjective) consisting of or divided into sections | Synonyms: sectional |
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sectorial | (adjective) relating to or resembling a sector | - |
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secular | (adjective) of or relating to clergy not bound by monastic vows | - |
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(adjective) not concerned with or devoted to religion | Synonyms: profane |
(adjective) characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world | Synonyms: temporal, worldly |
(adjective) of or relating to the doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations | - |
(adjective) characteristic of those who are not members of the clergy | Synonyms: laic, lay |
secure | (adjective) free from fear or doubt; easy in mind | Synonyms: unafraid, untroubled |
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(adjective) free from danger or risk | - |
(adjective) not likely to fail or give way | - |
(adjective) immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with | Synonyms: impregnable, inviolable, strong, unassailable, unattackable |
(adjective) financially safe | Synonyms: dependable, good, safe |