What is the difference between surreptitious and furtive?
surreptitious | furtive |
Stealth]]y, furtive, [[hidden, well hidden, covert (especially movements).
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=1 stealthy
Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
* 1949 , George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four , p31
Furtive is a synonym of surreptitious.
As adjectives the difference between surreptitious and furtive
is that surreptitious is stealthy, furtive, well hidden, covert (especially movements) while furtive is stealthy.surreptitious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement.}}
Synonyms
*Derived terms
* surreptitiouslyfurtive
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.