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secretive

adjective
🔊/ˈsiːkrətɪv/
🔊/ˈsiːkrətɪv/
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  1. secretive (about something) tending or liking to hide your thoughts, feelings, actions, etc. from other people惯于掩藏自己的；不外露的
    • He's very secretive about his work.他对自己的工作讳莫如深。🔊🔊
    • The child became secretive and withdrawn.那孩子变得内向孤僻。
    • his highly secretive nature他讳莫如深的本性
    Topics Personal qualitiesc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    • become
    adverb
    • extremely
    • fairly
    • very
    • …
    preposition
    • about
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    Word Originmid 19th cent.: back-formation from secretiveness, suggested by French secrétivité, from secret ‘secret’.