adjective, noun
adjective (formal) secret or hidden, making it difficult to notice:
covert operations / surveillance * He stole a covert glance at her across the table. * Every measure, both overt and covert, is being taken against terrorists.
compareOVERT
covertly adverb:
He watched her covertly in the mirror.
noun an area of thick low bushes and trees where animals can hide
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for covert is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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