Covert vs Clandestine - What's the difference?
covert | clandestine | Synonyms |
Hidden, covered over; overgrown, sheltered.
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(figuratively) Secret, surreptitious, concealed.
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(freemasonry, of a person or lodge) Not recognized as a regular member.
Clandestine is a synonym of covert.
As adjectives the difference between covert and clandestine
is that covert is hidden, covered over; overgrown, sheltered while clandestine is done or kept in secret, sometimes to conceal an illicit or improper purpose.As a noun covert
is area of thick undergrowth where animals hide.covert
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Within that wood there was a covert glade, / Foreby a narrow foord, to them well knowne
- to plant a covert alley
- how covert matters may be best disclosed
- whether of open war or covert guile
How algorithms rule the world, passage=The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives.
Synonyms
* See also * feme covertAntonyms
* overtDerived terms
* covert stutteringAnagrams
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Adjective
(en adjective)- In my imagination, all work place encounters between men and women result in clandestine sex.
- And I don't want anyone to think I dislike Catholicism because I don't. It's actually my favourite form of clandestine global evil.