Etymology 1
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From Middle English secretife, equivalent to secret + -ive.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
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secretive (comparative more secretive, superlative most secretive)
- Having an inclination to secrecy
She's a secretive girl, not giving away much about her life.
Why are you acting all secretive? What are you hiding?
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Translations
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having an inclination to secrecy
- Albanian: tinzar, tinëzar (sq)
- Arabic: كَتُوم (katūm), مُتَحَفِّظ (mutaḥaffiẓ), مُتَكَتِّم (mutakattim)
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- Armenian: գաղտնապահ (hy) (gaġtnapah), ծածկամիտ (hy) (cackamit)
- Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: потаен (bg) (potaen)
- Catalan: reservat
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 保密的 (bǎo mì dē)
- Czech: tajnůstkářský m, sekreční (cs)
- Danish: hemmelighedsfuld (da)
- Dutch: geheimzinnig (nl), gesloten (nl), gereserveerd (nl)
- Esperanto: kaŝema
- Finnish: salaperäinen (fi)
- French: secret (fr) (nature), cachottier (fr) (behaviour)
- German: verschlossen (de), heimlichtuerisch
- Greek: κρυφός (el) m (kryfós)
- Hebrew: חשאי (he) m (khashaí), נוטה לסודיות m (noté lesodiyút)
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- Hungarian: titokzatos (hu), titkolózó (hu)
- Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
- Latvian: noslēpumains
- Lithuanian: slapùs
- Maori: whakakumu
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: hemmelighetsfull
- Persian: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: skryty (pl) m, tajemniczy (pl) m
- Portuguese: reservado (pt)
- Romanian: secretos (ro)
- Russian: скры́тный (ru) (skrýtnyj), за́мкнутый (ru) (zámknutyj)
- Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
- Slovak: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: reservado (es)
- Swedish: hemlighetsfull (sv)
- Turkish: please add this translation if you can
- Urdu: please add this translation if you can
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Etymology 2
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Pronunciation
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- IPA(key): /səˈkɹiːtɪv/
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Adjective
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secretive (not comparable)
- Relating to secretion
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