Clandescent vs Furtive - What's the difference?
clandescent | furtive |
secret, clandestine
stealthy
Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
* 1949 , George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four , p31
As adjectives the difference between clandescent and furtive
is that clandescent is secret, clandestine while furtive is stealthy.clandescent
English
Adjective
(head)- I had no idea she was having a clandescent affair.
Usage notes
Non-existent but widely used (especially on the World Wide Web) as an alternative to clandestine, and with an identical meaning. Logically, it should mean becoming more secret ...furtive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control.
