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Furtive vs Lurking - What's the difference?

furtive | lurking |

As an adjective furtive

is stealthy.

As a verb lurking is

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As a noun lurking is

the act of one who lurks.

furtive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • stealthy
  • Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
  • * 1949 , George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four , p31
    • But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control.

    Synonyms

    * (stealthy) surreptitious * See also

    Derived terms

    * furtively * furtiveness

    lurking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who lurks.
  • * 2011 , Christine Chism, Alliterative Revivals (page 99)
    • In these hunting scenes, as many critics have noted, the reversals, negotiations, lurkings , and evasions between hunter and prey mirror and frame the bedroom strategies of the Lady and Gawain.