hidden

1. 1.

   not accessible to view

   “concealed (or hidden) damage”

   “in stormy weather the stars are out of sight”

   Synonymsconcealedout of sight

   Similarinvisible
2. 2.

   designed to elude detection

   “a hidden room or place of concealment such as a priest hole”

   “a secret passage”

   “the secret compartment in the desk”

   Synonymssecret

   Similarconcealed
3. 3.

   difficult to find

   “hidden valleys”

   “a hidden cave”

   “an obscure retreat”

   Synonymsobscure

   Similarconcealed

Other forms of hidden

comparative

hiddenner·

superlative

hiddennest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hidden

What does hidden mean?

hidden means "not accessible to view". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hidden?

hidden has 2 syllables: hid-den. The stress falls on "hid". In IPA it is /ˈhɪdən/.

What is another word for hidden?

Close synonyms include concealed, out of sight, secret, obscure. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hidden a common word?

hidden is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.