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Synonyms for covert
ˈkoʊ vərt, ˈkʌv ərt; ˈkʌv ərt, ˈkoʊ vərt; ˈkʌv ərt; oʊˈvɜrt, ˈoʊ vərt; ˈkoʊ vərtcovert

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Wiktionary0.0 / 0 votes

  1. covertadjective

    Synonyms:
    feme covert

    Antonyms:
    overt

  2. covertadjective

    Hidden, covered over; overgrown, sheltered.

    Synonyms:
    feme covert

    Antonyms:
    overt

  3. covertadjective

    Secret, surreptitious, concealed.

    Synonyms:
    feme covert

    Antonyms:
    overt

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. covertnoun

    a flock of coots

    Synonyms:
    concealment, screen, cover

    Antonyms:
    raw, bald, naked, barefaced, visible, open, undisguised, unprotected, overt

  2. screen, cover, covert, concealmentadjective

    a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something

    "a screen of trees afforded privacy"; "under cover of darkness"; "the brush provided a covert for game"; "the simplest concealment is to match perfectly the color of the background"

    Synonyms:
    masking, blanket, screen, covering, silver screen, blind, projection screen, back, screen door, covering fire, hiding, screenland, natural covering, cover song, privateness, sieve, concealing, concealment, cover version, top, cover, privacy, filmdom, binding, cover charge, secrecy, screening, book binding

    Antonyms:
    bald, visible, undisguised, unprotected, raw, barefaced, overt, naked, open

  3. covertadjective

    secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed

    "covert actions by the CIA"; "covert funding for the rebels"

    Antonyms:
    unprotected, raw, barefaced, bald, undisguised, overt, naked, open, visible

  4. covertadjective

    (of a wife) being under the protection of her husband

    "a woman covert"

    Antonyms:
    visible, bald, open, unprotected, overt, raw, barefaced, undisguised, naked

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. covertnoun

    Synonyms:
    shelter, refuge, asylum, harbor, sanctuary, retreat, defence

  2. covertadjective

    Synonyms:
    hidden, concealed, secret, disguised, clandestine, underhand, sly, insidious, stealthy

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. covertadjective

    Synonyms:
    secret, hidden, disguised, clandestine, stealthy

  2. covertnoun

    Synonyms:
    shelter, refuge, retreat, underwood, jungle, thicket

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How to use covert in a sentence?

  1. Environmental Protection Agency:

    Under the Antideficiency Act, EPA must conduct an internal investigation and identify the persons responsible, however, EPA is dismissive of GAO’s legal decision. In fact, even though GAO issued its legal decision on December 14, EPA has not removed from its website the messages that GAO found to be covert propaganda and grass roots lobbying.

  2. The Times:

    Compiled this month by the Cabinet Office under the codename Operation Yellowhammer, the dossier offers a rare glimpse into the covert planning being carried out by the government to avert a catastrophic collapse in the nation's infrastructure, the file, marked.

  3. Kateryna Stepanenko:

    Putin seems to lack confidence that polls and protestations of support for the war will survive a general conscription effort. Recruitment for volunteer battalions or covert mobilization only affects a small percentage of servicemen and their families, such separation allows Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin to control the appearance of the invasion without upsetting most of the Russian male population and their families.

  4. Nick Dowling:

    Russia has been the leader in using new technologies to attack targets in covert and confusing ways. Russia is an active leader in what strategists are calling the gray zone of warfare attacks in the gray zone between war and peace, attacking U.S. diplomats in Cuba and China are likely experimentation with this weapon but also serves the political interests of antagonizing U.S. relations with Cuba and China and creates fear, disruptionand distraction among U.S. diplomats and officials.

  5. Former CIA officer John Sipher:

    The simple difference is between covert interference on one side and public preferences. China is using influence, diplomacy and commentary in press and propaganda organs. Russia is using disinformation, fake accounts, bots, covert funding as part of a secret campaign.


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