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Tryst vs Clandestine - What's the difference?

tryst | clandestine |

As a noun tryst

is a prearranged meeting or assignation, now especially between lovers to meet at a specific place and time.

As a verb tryst

is to make a tryst; to agree to meet at a place.

As an adjective clandestine is

done or kept in secret, sometimes to conceal an illicit or improper purpose.

tryst

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Noun

(en noun)
  • A prearranged meeting or assignation, now especially between lovers to meet at a specific place and time.
  • * Tennyson
  • The tenderest-hearted maid / That ever bided tryst at village stile.
  • * 2004 , , The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life , page 11
  • But, for the most part, we shall mark our progress to the dawn of life by the measure of those 40 natural milestones, the trysts that enrich our pilgrimage.
  • * 2005 , , The Pig that Wants to be Eaten: And 99 other thought experiments , ?91: “No one gets hurt”, page 271 (Granta; ISBN 1862078556, 9781862078550)
  • If someone trusts you, what is lost if you betray that trust? As Scarlett is tempted to see it, sometimes nothing at all. If her husband remains ignorant of her tryst , then his trust in her will remain intact. ‘No one gets hurt’ runs her reasoning, so why not go ahead?
  • (obsolete) A mutual agreement, a covenant.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a tryst; to agree to meet at a place.
  • To arrange or appoint (a meeting time etc.).
  • To keep a tryst, to meet at an agreed place and time.
  • clandestine

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    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Done or kept in secret, sometimes to conceal an illicit or improper purpose.
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  • * 2004 — (Penny Arcade)
  • In my imagination, all work place encounters between men and women result in clandestine sex.
  • * 2005 — (Stewart Lee), 90's Comedian DVD''
  • And I don't want anyone to think I dislike Catholicism because I don't. It's actually my favourite form of clandestine global evil.
  • (freemasonry, of a person or lodge) Not recognized as a regular member.
  • Synonyms

    * (done in secret) covert, furtive, hush-hush, secret, secretive, undercover * See also