Thief vs Furtive - What's the difference?
thief | furtive |
One who has carried out a theft.
(obsolete) A waster in the snuff of a candle.
stealthy
Exhibiting guilty or evasive secrecy.
* 1949 , George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four , p31
As a noun thief
is one who has carried out a theft.As an adjective furtive is
stealthy.thief
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Noun
(thieves)- (Bishop Hall)
Hyponyms
* burglar * cat burglar * mugger * robber * pickpocketDerived terms
* *Anagrams
* English nouns with irregular pluralsfurtive
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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.