cloak-and-dagger

Questions about cloak-and-dagger

What is another word for cloak-and-dagger?

It depends which cloak-and-dagger you mean. In the sense “conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods”, the synonyms are clandestine, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover, underground. Across all 1 sense there are 8 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of cloak-and-dagger?

WordNet records no antonym for cloak-and-dagger. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for cloak-and-dagger come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of cloak-and-dagger

• Full entry for cloak-and-daggerAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for cloak-and-daggerWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.