Furtive vs Shrouded - What's the difference?
furtive | shrouded | Synonyms |
stealthy
Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
* 1949 , George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four , p31
Wearing, or provided with a shroud.
Concealed or hidden from sight, as if by a shroud.
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*:She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
(shroud)
Furtive is a synonym of shrouded.
As adjectives the difference between furtive and shrouded
is that furtive is stealthy while shrouded is wearing, or provided with a shroud.As a verb shrouded is
(shroud).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.
