adj
Meaning 1
Characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- stealthy military manoeuvres
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
stealthy
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈstɛlθi/
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India, North: /ˈsʈɛːl.d̪iː/
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India, North: /ˈsʈɛːl.t̪hiː/
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India, South: /ˈsʈel.d̪iː/
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India, South: /ˈsʈel.t̪(h)iː/
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rhymes with -ɛlθi
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homophone: stealthie
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CMU ARPABET: S T EH1 L TH IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adjective satellite
Meaning 2
marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a furtive manner
- a sneak attack
- stealthy footsteps
- a surreptitious glance at his watch
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: furtive, sneak(a), sneaky, surreptitious
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English stealth Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English stealthy From stealth + -y.
Across languages
Translations
30 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: прикрит (prikrit) — characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy
- Bulgarian: потаен (potaen) — characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy
- Finnish: vaivihkainen — characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy
- Finnish: salavihkainen — characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy
- French: furtif — characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy
- French: subreptice — characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy
- German: geheim — characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy
- German: heimlich — characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy
- German: verstohlen — characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy
- Italian: furtivo — characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy
- Northern Kurdish: dizîkî — characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy
- Northern Kurdish: nehînî — characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy
- Northern Kurdish: razberî — characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy
- Latvian: zaglīgs — characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy
- Māori: whakamokeke — characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy
- Māori: konihi — characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy
- Māori: kaiā — characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy
- Norwegian Bokmål: stjålen — characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy
- Plautdietsch: heemlich — characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy
- Portuguese: sigiloso — characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy
- Portuguese: furtivo — characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy
- Romanian: ascuns — characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy
- Romanian: furiș — characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy
- Romanian: furtiv — characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy
- Spanish: sigiloso — characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy
- Spanish: furtivo — characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy
- Swedish: förstulen — characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy
- Swedish: hemlig — characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy
- Welsh: llechwraidd — characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy
- Welsh: lladradaidd — characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy