in private

1. 1.

   kept private or confined to those intimately concerned

   “it was discussed privately between the two men”

   “privately, she thought differently”

   “some member of his own party hoped privately for his defeat”

   “he was questioned in private”

   Synonymsprivatelyin camera

Questions about in private

What does in private mean?

in private means "kept private or confined to those intimately concerned".

What is another word for in private?

Close synonyms include privately, in camera. 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 in private a common word?

in private is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.