secretly

English

Etymology

From secret +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiː.kɹɪt.li/

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• (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /ˈsiː.kɹət.li/

Adverb

secretly (not comparable)

1. In secret, covertly.

   Mary cheated secretly in the test, and never got caught.

   • 1988 October 2, James Atlas, “DABBLING IN LOVE - NOT THE NICE KIND”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Sometimes her prose hyperventilates ("Once, years ago, his and N.'s love for each other had glowed like phosphorescent fire on the surfaces of their bodies"), and she has a weakness for epiphanies ("There was a man, no longer young, though not yet old, who, traveling alone in northern Europe, began to feel that his soul was being drained slowly, almost secretly from him, drop by drop").

Antonyms

• cōram

Translations

in a secret manner

• Albanian: fshehurazi (sq), fshehtas (sq)
• Arabic: سِرًّا (sirran)
• Armenian: թաքուն (hy) (tʻakʻun), ծածուկ (hy) (cacuk)
• Azerbaijani: gizlicə (az), xəlvətcə (az), əlaltından, gizlin
• Belarusian: тае́мна (tajémna)
• Bulgarian: тайно (bg) (tajno), незабелязано (bg) (nezabeljazano)
• Catalan: secretament (ca), cobertament (ca), en secret
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 偷偷 (zh) (tōutōu)

• Czech: tajně (cs)
• Danish: hemmeligt, i dølgsmål (da)
• Dutch: stiekem (nl)
• Esperanto: sekrete
• Finnish: salaa (fi), salaisesti (fi), salassa (fi), vaivihkaa (fi)
• French: secrètement (fr), en cachette (fr)
• German: heimlich (de), insgeheim (de)
• Gothic: 𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌱𐌾𐍉 (þiubjō), 𐌰𐌽𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌿𐌲𐌽𐌹𐌱𐌰 (analaugniba)
• Greek: κρυφά (el) (kryfá), μυστικά (el) (mystiká)

  Ancient: κρυφῇ (kruphêi), λάθρᾳ (láthrāi), λαθραίως (lathraíōs)

  Doric: κρυφᾷ (kruphâi)

• Hungarian: titkon (hu), titokban (hu)
• Ido: sekrete (io)
• Irish: gan fhios
• Italian: di nascosto
• Japanese: ひそかに (ja) (hisoka ni)
• Korean: 몰래 (ko) (mollae)
• Latgalian: paslapyn, paslapši
• Latin: clam, furtim, latenter
• Latvian: slepeni
• Middle English: sleighly
• Polish: potajemnie (pl)
• Portuguese: secretamente (pt)
• Russian: та́йно (ru) (tájno), секре́тно (ru) (sekrétno), тайко́м (ru) (tajkóm), вта́йне (ru) (vtájne), скры́тно (ru) (skrýtno)
• Sanskrit: सनुतर् (sa) (sanutar)
• Scottish Gaelic: os ìosal
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кришом, тајом, тајно

  Roman: krišom (sh), tajom (sh), tajno (sh)

• Spanish: secretamente (es), en secreto, caleta (es) (Peru), a escondidas (es), a escondidillas, de extranjis, de tapadillo
• Tocharian B: enestai
• Ukrainian: тає́мно (tajémno)
• Walloon: catchetmint (wa)
• West Frisian: temûk