covert
adjective
1. secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed
- covert actions by the CIA
- covert funding for the rebels
Similar word(s): implicit, inexplicit, backstair, backstairs, furtive, black, clandestine, secret, surreptitious, undercover, underground, collusive, conniving, cloaked, disguised, masked, subterranean, subterraneous, ulterior, undisclosed, unrevealed, concealed, invisible, unseeable
2. (of a wife) being under the protection of her husband
- a woman covert
Similar word(s): protected