Definitions for secretive
ˈsi krɪ tɪv, sɪˈkri-se·cre·tive

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1. close, closelipped, closemouthed, secretive, tightlippedadjective

   inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information

   "although they knew her whereabouts her friends kept close about it"

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1. secretiveadjective

   Having an inclination to secrecy.

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1. secretive

   Secrecy is the practice of hiding information from certain individuals or groups who do not have the "need to know", perhaps while sharing it with other individuals. That which is kept hidden is known as the secret. Secrecy is often controversial, depending on the content or nature of the secret, the group or people keeping the secret, and the motivation for secrecy. Secrecy by government entities is often decried as excessive or in promotion of poor operation; excessive revelation of information on individuals can conflict with virtues of privacy and confidentiality. It is often contrasted with social transparency. Secrecy can exist in a number of different ways: encoding or encryption (where mathematical and technical strategies are used to hide messages), true secrecy (where restrictions are put upon those who take part of the message, such as through government security classification) and obfuscation, where secrets are hidden in plain sight behind complex idiosyncratic language (jargon) or steganography. Another classification proposed by Claude Shannon in 1948 reads there are three systems of secrecy within communication: concealment systems, including such methods as invisible ink, concealing a message in an innocent text, or in a fake covering cryptogram, or other methods in which the existence of the message is concealed from the enemy privacy systems, for example, voice inversion, in which special equipment is required to recover the message "true" secrecy systems where the meaning of the message is concealed by the cypher, code, etc., although its existence is not hidden, and the enemy is assumed to have any special equipment necessary to intercept and record the transmitted signal

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1. secretive

   Secretive refers to the tendency or behavior of keeping one's thoughts, intentions, or actions hidden or concealed from others. It implies being reluctant or unwilling to divulge information or share personal details. Someone or something described as secretive often tends to avoid transparency or openness.

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1. Secretiveadjective

   tending to secrete, or to keep secret or private; as, a secretive disposition

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of secretive in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of secretive in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of secretive in a Sentence

1. Thea Lee:

   I've worked with the Clinton administration and I've worked with the Bush administration. And this administration is more secretive.

2. The Journal:

   Several former U.S. officials said the half brother, who had lived outside of North Korea for many years and had no known power base in Pyongyang, was unlikely to be able to provide details of the secretive country's inner workings.

3. Genette Hemley:

   Tigers are notoriously difficult animals to study, they’re nocturnal, they’re secretive, they live in dense forests. And so it is not an exact science, but it is getting better all the time.

4. Senate Health:

   The opaque and secretive handling of information related to these events constitutes an obvious threat to public health and is unacceptable in a free nation whose elected leaders must be transparent with and accountable to the American people.

5. British Deese:

   Its been very secretive and they have an ongoing investigation.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=secretive
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Secretive
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretive
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/secretive
6. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=secretive