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Undercover vs Furtive - What's the difference?

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Undercover is a related term of furtive.


As adjectives the difference between undercover and furtive

is that undercover is performed or happening in secret while furtive is stealthy.

As a noun undercover

is a person who works.

undercover

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Performed or happening in secret.
  • Employed or engaged in spying or secret investigation.

    • Synonyms

    * clandestine * See also

    Related terms

    * cloak-and-dagger

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who works .

    • 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