Synonyms for Clandestine:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • clandestine.
  •cloak-and-dagger (adjective)
  • most hugger-mugger,
  • most hugger mugger,
  • more hugger-mugger,
  • more hugger mugger,
  • cloak and dagger.
  •deceitful (adjective)
  • mis leading,
  • mis-leading,
  • mendacious,
  • most astucious,
  • most rascal,
  • two faced,
  • un-truthful,
  • more rascal,
  • de signing,
  • dis ingenuous,
  • most feline,
  • more deceiving,
  • hypo-critical,
  • more impostrous,
  • un truthful,
  • in-direct,
  • most impostrous,
  • most beguiling,
  • doubledealing,
  • slick,
  • un trustworthy,
  • double-dealing,
  • hypo critical,
  • dis-ingenuous,
  • most illusory,
  • un-trustworthy,
  • untruthful,
  • twofaced,
  • more feline,
  • de-signing,
  • most deceiving,
  • more astucious,
  • in direct,
  • more beguiling.
  •furtive (adjective)
  • more subrosa,
  • more conspiratorial,
  • dis guised,
  • subrosa,
  • more slinking,
  • most skulking,
  • more sub rosa,
  • masked,
  • dis-guised,
  • most slinking,
  • most conspiratorial,
  • more under the table,
  • more sub-rosa,
  • most sub-rosa,
  • more skulking,
  • most subrosa,
  • most under the table,
  • most under-the-table,
  • more under-the-table,
  • most sub rosa.
  •hidden (adjective)
  • un known,
  • un-revealed,
  • more eclipsed,
  • un-detected,
  • un revealed,
  • un detected,
  • more imperceivable,
  • with held,
  • more unrevealed,
  • un-disclosed,
  • hermetic,
  • with-held,
  • most sequestered,
  • withheld,
  • in dark,
  • in-discernible,
  • in-visible,
  • most shrouded,
  • un exposed,
  • un disclosed,
  • Imperceivable,
  • out view,
  • more sequestered,
  • more hermetical,
  • most eclipsed,
  • in discernible,
  • un-exposed,
  • in visible,
  • most hermetical,
  • more shrouded,
  • most unrevealed,
  • most imperceivable,
  • un-known.
  •huggermugger (adjective)
  • more dissembled,
  • more dissimulated,
  • most backstairs,
  • most dissimulated,
  • more backstairs,
  • dis simulated,
  • dis-simulated,
  • more backdoor,
  • most backdoor,
  • most dissembled.
  •hush-hush (adjective)
  • hushhush,
  • most closet,
  • hush hush,
  • more closet.
  •illicit (adjective)
  • more unlicensed,
  • more black market,
  • more black-market,
  • in violation law,
  • more blackmarket,
  • more racket,
  • most black-market,
  • illegal,
  • un licensed,
  • un-authorized,
  • most black market,
  • out line,
  • most unlicensed,
  • un-lawful,
  • un authorized,
  • un-licensed,
  • contrary law,
  • most blackmarket,
  • un lawful,
  • blackmarket,
  • most racket.
  •latent (adjective)
  • invisible,
  • buried,
  • veiled,
  • unobservable,
  • unapparent,
  • unexposed,
  • latent,
  • concealed,
  • camouflaged.
  •private (adjective)
  • close to one's chest,
  • behind the scenes,
  • not open,
  • nonpublic,
  • non-public.
  •secret (adjective)
  • restricted,
  • arcane.
  •stealthy (adjective)
  • sneakest.
  •subterrestrial (adjective)
  • hypo gean,
  • sub terrestrial,
  • sub-terrestrial,
  • hypo-gean.
  •underground (adjective)
  • under ground,
  • unbowed.
  •underhand (adjective)
  • dirty-dealing,
  • dirty dealing.
  •underhanded (adjective)
  • under-handed,
  • under handed,
  • more cheating.

• n.

  •
  • in strict confidence,
  • mysterious.
  •
  • under wraps,
  • huggermugger,
  • show,
  • sub rosa.
  •clandestine (noun)
  • hugger mugger,
  • on the quiet.
  •furtive (noun)
  • study at secret.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • non-committal,
  • top-secret,
  • deceptive,
  • secretly,
  • confidentially,
  • shady,
  • lawless,
  • close-mouthed,
  • criminal,
  • actionable,
  • treasonable,
  • smell,
  • need-to-know,
  • under-the-counter,
  • shadowy,
  • illegality,
  • seedy,
  • closed-door,
  • wrongful,
  • surreptitiously,
  • inwardly,
  • deceptively,
  • delinquent,
  • counterfeit,
  • guarded,
  • convicted,
  • punishable,
  • fishy,
  • back-alley,
  • unlawful,
  • improper.
  •
  • backstreet,
  • tight-lipped,
  • unidentified,
  • dirty,
  • bootleg.
  •
  • guilty,
  • sensitive,
  • corrupt,
  • pirate.
  •
  • Against.
  •
  • intimate.
  •
  • hot.
  •
  • front.
  •Other relevant words:
  • irregular,
  • cryptical,
  • privily,
  • implied,
  • evasive,
  • enigmatically,
  • on the sly,
  • paillard,
  • unpublished,
  • Slinking,
  • darkness,
  • roundabout,
  • dirtily,
  • supernatural,
  • strangely,
  • fornicator,
  • stealth,
  • whoremonger,
  • privy,
  • abjectly,
  • illegitimate,
  • unseen,
  • internal,
  • quietly,
  • lecher,
  • in secret,
  • behind closed doors,
  • circumlocutionary,
  • favourable,
  • circuitous,
  • internally,
  • topsy-turvy,
  • skulking,
  • esoteric,
  • concealment,
  • unobtrusive,
  • case,
  • furtively,
  • sneak,
  • not for publication,
  • symbolic,
  • closely,
  • Favoured,
  • press,
  • awry,
  • silence,
  • shifty,
  • behind-the-scenes,
  • auricular,
  • cryptic,
  • allegorical,
  • cabinet,
  • shabbily,
  • mysteriously,
  • jumbled,
  • Egoistically,
  • disorderly,
  • propitious,
  • unknown,
  • in holes and corners,
  • Stealthful,
  • Subterrestrial,
  • Adulterer,
  • mystic,
  • mystery,
  • secretiveness,
  • unpublishable,
  • selfishly,
  • foxy,
  • sneaky,
  • tortuous,
  • crafty,
  • cryptically,
  • stealthily,
  • belowground,
  • cabbalistic,
  • back door,
  • inviolate,
  • cloak-and-dagger work,
  • preternatural,
  • mystical,
  • recondite,
  • wrong,
  • underneath,
  • occult,
  • subterranean,
  • lubricious,
  • advantaged,
  • offhand,
  • devious,
  • cautious,
  • secretively,
  • indirect,
  • false,
  • oblique,
  • secluded,
  • preferred,
  • Slinky,
  • fraudulent,
  • sidelong,
  • preferential,
  • feline,
  • other-worldly,
  • seducer,
  • locker,
  • goat,
  • unavowed,
  • reticent,
  • cabalistic,
  • sneakily,
  • obscure,
  • not expressed,
  • silent,
  • in petto,
  • under cover,
  • artful,
  • advantageous,
  • clandestinely,
  • orphic,
  • satyr,
  • exclusive,
  • sneakingly,
  • unofficial,
  • ineffable.

Paraphrases for Clandestine:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    secret, surreptitious.
  • Proper noun, singular
    secret, secrets, surreptitious.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    closed-door, unreported, undisclosed, occult, unauthorized, unofficial, ulterior, illegitimate, unauthorised, non-confidential, black, disguised, invisible.
  • Proper noun, singular
    Policies, secrecy.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    back-street, undeclared, undocumented, illegal, underground, confidential, shadowy, classified.
  • Proper noun, singular
    illegal, underground, confidential, classified.

Antonyms for Clandestine:

• adj.

  • secret, sly
    known, open, legal, forthright, public, truthful, authorized, honest.
  • Other antonyms:
    unclassified, evident, overt, clear, unrestricted, aboveboard, patent, manifest, plain, undisguised, straightforward, acknowledged, obvious, unconcealed, avowed.