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Masked vs Furtive - What's the difference?

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Masked is a related term of furtive.


As adjectives the difference between masked and furtive

is that masked is wearing a mask or masks; characterized by masks; concealed; hidden while furtive is stealthy.

As a verb masked

is (mask).

masked

English

Alternative forms

* masqued (archaic)

Verb

(head)
  • (mask)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Wearing a mask or masks; characterized by masks; concealed; hidden.
  • (botany) personate
  • (zoology) Having the anterior part of the head differing decidedly in color from the rest of the plumage; -- said of birds.

    • Derived terms

    * masked ball * masked battery * masked crab * masked pig

    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