Secret
adjective
Not known or seen or not meant to be known or seen by others.
He had a secret meeting with the CEO.
Often appears as...
- secret meeting
- secret location
noun
Something that is kept or meant to be kept unknown or unseen by others.
He kept his plans a secret from his family.
Often appears as...
- keep a secret
- tell a secret
adjective
Something done, made, or conducted without the knowledge of others.
He had secret dealings with enemy spies.
Often appears as...
- secret dealings
- secret plans
noun
A valid but not commonly known or recognized method of achieving or maintaining something.
The secret to success is hard work.
Often appears as...
- secret to success
- secret to happiness
noun
A hidden or secretive human ability or faculty.
He had the secret power to read minds.
Often appears as...
- secret power
- secret ability
adjective
The quality of being difficult to detect or analyze.
The secret nature of his work made it difficult to understand.
Often appears as...
- secret nature
- secret character
Usage tips
Technical
adjective
Not known or seen or not meant to be known or seen by others.
He had a secret meeting with the CEO.
Often appears as...
- secret meeting
- secret location
noun
Something that is kept or meant to be kept unknown or unseen by others.
He kept his plans a secret from his family.
Often appears as...
- keep a secret
- tell a secret
adjective
Something done, made, or conducted without the knowledge of others.
He had secret dealings with enemy spies.
Often appears as...
- secret dealings
- secret plans
noun
A valid but not commonly known or recognized method of achieving or maintaining something.
The secret to success is hard work.
Often appears as...
- secret to success
- secret to happiness
noun
A hidden or secretive human ability or faculty.
He had the secret power to read minds.
Often appears as...
- secret power
- secret ability
adjective
The quality of being difficult to detect or analyze.
The secret nature of his work made it difficult to understand.
Often appears as...
- secret nature
- secret character
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 6
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Weight
The adjective 'secret' often suggests something important and personal is being concealed.
She wouldn't share her secret thoughts with anyone.
Pro Tip 2/3Trust and Privacy
'Secret' can imply a level of trust between people, indicating confidential information.
He told me his secret, swearing me to secrecy.
Pro Tip 3/3Sneakiness
Using 'secret' might suggest dishonesty or deception when describing actions.
Their secret escape plan involved a disguise.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Weight
The adjective 'secret' often suggests something important and personal is being concealed.
She wouldn't share her secret thoughts with anyone.
Pro Tip 2/3Trust and Privacy
'Secret' can imply a level of trust between people, indicating confidential information.
He told me his secret, swearing me to secrecy.
Pro Tip 3/3Sneakiness
Using 'secret' might suggest dishonesty or deception when describing actions.
Their secret escape plan involved a disguise.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Weight
The adjective 'secret' often suggests something important and personal is being concealed.
She wouldn't share her secret thoughts with anyone.
Pro Tip 2/3Trust and Privacy
'Secret' can imply a level of trust between people, indicating confidential information.
He told me his secret, swearing me to secrecy.
Pro Tip 3/3Sneakiness
Using 'secret' might suggest dishonesty or deception when describing actions.
Their secret escape plan involved a disguise.
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The world’s most...
What secrets do its pages contain? He purchased the manuscript from the cash-strapped priest at the college, and eventually brought it to the U.S., where experts have continued to puzzle over it for more than a century. Cryptologists say the writing has all the characteristics of a real language, just one that no one's ever seen before.
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Why are there so many...
So, what's their secret to success? Insect abundance comes down to many things that together make them some of the most adaptable and resilient creatures, beginning with their impressive ability to breed. Many species can produce hundreds of offspring within their lifetimes. Most offspring will die,
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What does my headscarf...
Unconscious bias is not the same as conscious discrimination. I'm not saying that in all of you, there's a secret sexist or racist or ageist lurking within, waiting to get out. That's not what I'm saying. We all have our biases. They're the filters through which we see the world around us.
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The complex geometry of...
One with eight petals is part of the fourfold category, and so on. There's another secret ingredient in these an underlying grid. Invisible, but essential to every pattern, the grid helps determine the scale of the composition before work begins, keeps the pattern accurate,
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The genius of Marie...
laid the groundwork for our understanding of physics and chemistry, blazing trails in oncology, technology, medicine, and nuclear physics, to name a few. For good or ill, her discoveries in radiation launched a new era, unearthing some of science's greatest secrets.
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What can Schrödinger's...
of quantum information science, a growing field studying how to use the laws of the strange quantum world in our macroscopic world, like in quantum cryptography, so spies can send secure messages to each other, or quantum computing, for cracking secret codes.
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4 simple ways to have a...
acquire knowledge one must study but to acquire wisdom one must observe or as warren buffett says i always believe my eyes rather than anything else and now the biggest secret for super ideas could I have a drumroll please
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If superpowers were...
Immortality. In movies, kings are always searching for the secret to immortality. But is immortality really a good thing? To a ten-year-old boy, one year is the same as 10% of his life.
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109-Year-Old Veteran and...
my secret to a long life if you ever use it if you don't use that you're better off not coming got ya yet and I don't know when I'll come here and I don't
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Amazing Animal...
hardly surprising it's stashed in his intended victim's mouth with the nut raider preoccupied he can either eat it or bury it secretly
Video examples
The world’s most...
What secrets do its pages contain? He purchased the manuscript from the cash-strapped priest at the college, and eventually brought it to the U.S., where experts have continued to puzzle over it for more than a century. Cryptologists say the writing has all the characteristics of a real language, just one that no one's ever seen before.
Video examples
Why are there so many...
So, what's their secret to success? Insect abundance comes down to many things that together make them some of the most adaptable and resilient creatures, beginning with their impressive ability to breed. Many species can produce hundreds of offspring within their lifetimes. Most offspring will die,
Video examples
What does my headscarf...
Unconscious bias is not the same as conscious discrimination. I'm not saying that in all of you, there's a secret sexist or racist or ageist lurking within, waiting to get out. That's not what I'm saying. We all have our biases. They're the filters through which we see the world around us.
Video examples
The complex geometry of...
One with eight petals is part of the fourfold category, and so on. There's another secret ingredient in these an underlying grid. Invisible, but essential to every pattern, the grid helps determine the scale of the composition before work begins, keeps the pattern accurate,
Video examples
The genius of Marie...
laid the groundwork for our understanding of physics and chemistry, blazing trails in oncology, technology, medicine, and nuclear physics, to name a few. For good or ill, her discoveries in radiation launched a new era, unearthing some of science's greatest secrets.
Video examples
What can Schrödinger's...
of quantum information science, a growing field studying how to use the laws of the strange quantum world in our macroscopic world, like in quantum cryptography, so spies can send secure messages to each other, or quantum computing, for cracking secret codes.
Video examples
4 simple ways to have a...
acquire knowledge one must study but to acquire wisdom one must observe or as warren buffett says i always believe my eyes rather than anything else and now the biggest secret for super ideas could I have a drumroll please
Video examples
If superpowers were...
Immortality. In movies, kings are always searching for the secret to immortality. But is immortality really a good thing? To a ten-year-old boy, one year is the same as 10% of his life.
Video examples
109-Year-Old Veteran and...
my secret to a long life if you ever use it if you don't use that you're better off not coming got ya yet and I don't know when I'll come here and I don't
Video examples
Amazing Animal...
hardly surprising it's stashed in his intended victim's mouth with the nut raider preoccupied he can either eat it or bury it secretly
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Tony Robbins
American Speaker
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
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Golda Meir
Israeli Leader
Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
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Tyler Perry
American Actor
Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be healed - for the most part, every family's got them.
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Virginia Woolf
British Author
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American Poet
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
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Mark Twain
American Writer
Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
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Lewis Carroll
English Author
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
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Albert Schweitzer
German Theologian
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
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Bertrand Russell
British Philosopher
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
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Salvador Dali
Spanish Artist
The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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Tony Robbins
American Speaker
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
Quote examples
Golda Meir
Israeli Leader
Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
Quote examples
Tyler Perry
American Actor
Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be healed - for the most part, every family's got them.
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Virginia Woolf
British Author
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
Quote examples
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American Poet
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Quote examples
Mark Twain
American Writer
Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Quote examples
Lewis Carroll
English Author
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
Quote examples
Albert Schweitzer
German Theologian
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Quote examples
Bertrand Russell
British Philosopher
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
Quote examples
Salvador Dali
Spanish Artist
The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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