Definition for Private:

• Peculiar to one's self; personal; secret; secluded; not open; not invested with public office or employment.

Synonyms for Private:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • secret,
  • individual.
  •close (adjective)
  • retired.
  •hidden, isolated (adjective)
  • retired,
  • concealed,
  • solitary,
  • quiet,
  • secluded,
  • withdrawn,
  • removed,
  • sequestered.
  •inmost (adjective)
  • innermost,
  • inmost.
  •nonmilitary (adjective)
  • civilian.
  •not listed (adjective)
  • unlisted.
  •personal, intimate (adjective)
  • under one's hat,
  • unofficial,
  • inside,
  • independent,
  • own,
  • exclusive,
  • not open,
  • hush-hush,
  • particular,
  • special,
  • reserved,
  • secret,
  • confidential,
  • separate,
  • closet,
  • privy,
  • close to one's chest,
  • nonpublic,
  • hushed,
  • discreet,
  • clandestine,
  • individual.
  •private (adjective)
  • esoteric,
  • confidential,
  • intimate,
  • secret,
  • personal,
  • exclusive.
  •restrained (adjective)
  • reserved.
  •secluded (adjective)
  • Seclusive,
  • isolated.
  •secret (adjective)
  • hush-hush,
  • conspiratorial,
  • inside,
  • privy,
  • confidential.
  •special (adjective)
  • separate,
  • isolated,
  • removed,
  • not open,
  • behind-the-scenes,
  • retired,
  • single,
  • withdrawn,
  • own,
  • solitary.
  •subterranean (adjective)
  • subterranean.
  •surreptitious (adjective)
  • on the sly,
  • hole-and-corner.
  •top-secret (adjective)
  • classified.
  •undercover (adjective)
  • under cover.
  •underground (adjective)
  • Subterrestrial.
  •unlisted (adjective)
  • unpublicized,
  • unrecorded,
  • unreported.
  •within (adjective)
  • internal.

• n.

  •
  • foot soldier,
  • gi,
  • grenadier,
  • cannon fodder.
  •
  • obscure,
  • specific,
  • strange,
  • anonymous.
  •
  • monastic.
  •
  • inside,
  • classified,
  • secretive,
  • shadowy,
  • auricular.
  •
  • restrictive,
  • restricted.
  •
  • populist.
  •
  • several,
  • respective,
  • individualistic.
  •lowest rank of person enlisted in armed service (noun)
  • infantry,
  • private soldier,
  • soldier,
  • enlisted person,
  • gi,
  • sailor,
  • second-class.
  •private (noun)
  • backstage,
  • cliquish,
  • common soldier,
  • insular,
  • sequestered,
  • buck private,
  • offstage,
  • close,
  • clubby,
  • secluded,
  • inward,
  • cloistered,
  • reclusive,
  • confidential,
  • one-on-one,
  • snobby,
  • nonpublic,
  • snobbish,
  • toffee-nosed,
  • personal,
  • individual,
  • privy,
  • clannish,
  • closet,
  • secret,
  • closed-door.
  •secrecy (noun)
  • Clandestinity.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • strange,
  • domestic,
  • unidentified,
  • residential,
  • unforeseeable,
  • indeterminable,
  • soldier,
  • own,
  • undiscovered,
  • unknowable,
  • unspecified,
  • indeterminate,
  • unexplained,
  • unacknowledged,
  • unexplored,
  • hush-hush,
  • unremarked,
  • unsuspected,
  • unheard,
  • unfamiliar,
  • anonymous,
  • auricular,
  • incognito,
  • undisclosed,
  • unrecorded.
  •
  • invisible,
  • incalculable,
  • obscure,
  • unheralded,
  • populist,
  • nameless.
  •
  • unmarked,
  • undeclared,
  • inside.
  •
  • mystery.
  •
  • folk.
  •
  • dark,
  • closed.
  •clandestine
  • surreptitious.
  •distinctive
  • characteristic.
  •enigmatic
  • stealthy.
  •every
  • each.
  •furtive
  • clandestine.
  •inmost
  • innermost.
  •interior
  • inner.
  •intimate
  • inmost.
  •nonmilitary
  • civilian.
  •personal
  • proper.
  •unauthorized
  • unofficial.
  •within
  • internal.
  •Other relevant words:
  • lancer,
  • allegorical,
  • quirk,
  • choice,
  • stealthy,
  • mystical,
  • rifleman,
  • expressive,
  • be closeted with,
  • under cover,
  • eradicate,
  • cryptographic,
  • enlisted person,
  • darkly,
  • in the dark,
  • deep,
  • unlisted,
  • defined,
  • stairs,
  • lone,
  • canal,
  • appropriate,
  • immanent,
  • stairway,
  • quip,
  • bomber,
  • crossroad,
  • quietly,
  • secretly,
  • byway,
  • Concetto,
  • oppose,
  • gi,
  • Clandestinity,
  • other-worldly,
  • semiprivate,
  • infantry,
  • ingrained,
  • antisocial,
  • archer,
  • unannounced,
  • monastic,
  • bye,
  • particular,
  • standing joke,
  • unreported,
  • cabalistic,
  • intrinsic,
  • cottage,
  • on the sly,
  • unheralded,
  • cliquish,
  • extraordinary,
  • Pikeman,
  • significant,
  • innate,
  • propitious,
  • distinct,
  • seclusion,
  • ungregarious,
  • legionary,
  • thorough,
  • in camera,
  • subterranean,
  • unexposed,
  • officer,
  • unremarked,
  • advantageous,
  • privately,
  • definite,
  • ladder,
  • cryptic,
  • special,
  • chic,
  • douse,
  • mariner,
  • jet plane,
  • inlying,
  • joke,
  • Ungenerously,
  • symbolic,
  • corsair,
  • warship,
  • insular,
  • Hid,
  • deceitful,
  • hush-hush,
  • crafty,
  • carabineer,
  • grunt,
  • levity,
  • unauthorized,
  • unfamiliar,
  • out-of-the-way,
  • deep-seated,
  • segregate,
  • genital,
  • inhibit,
  • egotistically,
  • sly,
  • secrecy,
  • airline,
  • abode,
  • undocumented,
  • irreducible,
  • unofficial,
  • household,
  • Undivulged,
  • quodlibet,
  • standoffish,
  • unaffectedly,
  • isolate,
  • exterminate,
  • obscure,
  • filibuster,
  • behind-the-scenes,
  • strange,
  • railway,
  • squaddie,
  • bypath,
  • undeclared,
  • vague,
  • peon,
  • contain,
  • sharpshooter,
  • inner,
  • canny,
  • covert,
  • retirement,
  • innermost,
  • non-gregarious,
  • individualized,
  • preferred,
  • partial,
  • genitals,
  • privily,
  • detailed,
  • unpublished,
  • eloquent,
  • secretive,
  • unsocial,
  • mystery,
  • folk,
  • unconfessed,
  • incalculable,
  • separation,
  • unforeseeable,
  • unvoiced,
  • furtively,
  • seaman,
  • mot,
  • remote,
  • unexplored,
  • segregated,
  • undercover,
  • gunner,
  • each,
  • confidentially,
  • interior,
  • diagnostic,
  • nameless,
  • turnpike,
  • witticism,
  • protected,
  • hermit-like,
  • conspiratorial,
  • scintillation,
  • freebooter,
  • withdrawn,
  • highway,
  • protect,
  • populist,
  • subsonic aircraft,
  • unknowable,
  • unspecified,
  • alone,
  • halberdier,
  • grenadier,
  • annihilate,
  • PERSONAL INTEREST,
  • unheard,
  • inwards,
  • recondite,
  • detain,
  • Spearman,
  • speedway,
  • furtive,
  • naturally,
  • Subterrestrial,
  • stanch,
  • civilian,
  • Tommy,
  • sailor,
  • private first class,
  • loyal,
  • Sepoy,
  • in secret,
  • towpath,
  • unsuspected,
  • bridle path,
  • detached,
  • clannish,
  • apart,
  • clandestinely,
  • Intime,
  • reticent,
  • specific,
  • privately owned,
  • propeller plane,
  • unexpressed,
  • sneaky,
  • individualistic,
  • auricular,
  • abstruse,
  • internal,
  • noteworthy,
  • one-on-one,
  • secretively,
  • sneakingly,
  • bon mot,
  • absolute,
  • sheltered,
  • quench,
  • hermitic,
  • discreet,
  • in petto,
  • mysterious,
  • tortuous,
  • peripheral,
  • bridle road,
  • undiscovered,
  • home,
  • spy plane,
  • jest,
  • guarded,
  • mid-course,
  • ineffable,
  • uncommunicative,
  • meaningful,
  • ensign,
  • subjective,
  • retiring,
  • sequestered,
  • preferential,
  • solipsistic,
  • rarefied,
  • singular,
  • unchallengeable,
  • bowman,
  • indwelling,
  • infantryman,
  • food for powder,
  • jape,
  • From,
  • record,
  • aside,
  • anonymous,
  • beaten path,
  • non-public,
  • disguised,
  • unacknowledged,
  • penetrating,
  • express,
  • roadway,
  • personally,
  • close,
  • Yager,
  • concrete,
  • unrevealed,
  • ascertain,
  • outside,
  • fighter-bomber,
  • concealed,
  • privy,
  • rank and file,
  • freeway,
  • precise,
  • eremitic,
  • surreptitiously,
  • restricted,
  • restrain,
  • skulking,
  • unsociable,
  • Namelessly,
  • quiet,
  • unpublicized,
  • crank,
  • supercilious,
  • foot soldier,
  • hugger mugger,
  • classified,
  • dark,
  • particularized,
  • sidewalk,
  • preternatural,
  • retired,
  • familial,
  • patented,
  • respective,
  • unexplained,
  • thoroughfare,
  • private soldier,
  • backstage,
  • characteristic,
  • Tommy Atkins,
  • byroad,
  • flags,
  • unseen,
  • unalienable,
  • retard,
  • incomprehensible,
  • far-off,
  • cloistered,
  • snobbish,
  • unavailable,
  • upper-class,
  • stealthily,
  • occult,
  • indeterminate,
  • untold,
  • underlying,
  • secondary,
  • selfishly,
  • inherent,
  • jibe,
  • destroy,
  • obstruct,
  • soldier,
  • Infixed,
  • supernatural,
  • skirmisher,
  • residential,
  • Oneself,
  • Myself,
  • genitalia,
  • closed-door,
  • standard,
  • toffee-nosed,
  • conceit,
  • inalienable,
  • Unrecounted,
  • cannon fodder,
  • agree,
  • minute,
  • inmost,
  • sneakily,
  • not for publication,
  • select,
  • common soldier,
  • inward,
  • reserved,
  • inviolate,
  • party,
  • beaten track,
  • invisible,
  • suppressed,
  • check,
  • extinguish,
  • unique,
  • carrefour,
  • distinguished,
  • favourable,
  • individual,
  • covertly,
  • subaltern,
  • closet,
  • shrewd,
  • exceptional,
  • stair,
  • loneliness,
  • inside,
  • tramway,
  • formal,
  • behind closed doors,
  • indeterminable,
  • rocket plane,
  • hearty,
  • intuitive,
  • clandestine,
  • Seclusive,
  • pathway,
  • dampen,
  • unquestionable,
  • artful,
  • shadowy,
  • suppress,
  • haughty,
  • railroad,
  • privy parts,
  • nonpublic,
  • not expressed,
  • classy,
  • first class,
  • trendy,
  • ulterior,
  • mystic,
  • underhanded,
  • quiddity,
  • encoded,
  • epigram,
  • privacy,
  • legionnaire,
  • unmarked,
  • unidentified,
  • Jeu D'esprit,
  • snobby,
  • solitary,
  • cabbalistic,
  • removed,
  • departure,
  • independent,
  • keep one's distance,
  • noncommissioned officer,
  • commune with,
  • tete-a-tete,
  • arcane,
  • freelance,
  • privateness,
  • veiled,
  • determinate,
  • different,
  • endemic,
  • far-away,
  • Obscured,
  • buccaneer,
  • Delitescent,
  • retreat,
  • buck private,
  • cryptical,
  • rover,
  • corporate jet,
  • backstairs,
  • head-to-head,
  • wily,
  • unpublishable,
  • musketeer,
  • fighter,
  • warrior,
  • in private,
  • not open,
  • underhand,
  • hole-and-corner,
  • under one's hat,
  • Family,
  • turbojet,
  • surreptitious,
  • sneaking,
  • orphic,
  • hushed,
  • single,
  • secluded,
  • original,
  • royal road,
  • lonely,
  • spontaneously,
  • close to one's chest,
  • consume,
  • elegant,
  • offstage,
  • privileged,
  • advantaged,
  • informal,
  • proper,
  • domestic,
  • inwrought,
  • Trottoir,
  • item-by-item,
  • supersonic aircraft,
  • hidden,
  • isolated,
  • aristocratic,
  • exhaustive,
  • resident,
  • serviceman,
  • street,
  • conduit,
  • in confidence,
  • aloof,
  • take aside,
  • cosy,
  • doughboy,
  • trooper,
  • cut,
  • separate,
  • fixed,
  • Facetiae,
  • fashionable,
  • resignation,
  • pavement,
  • second-class,
  • Favoured,
  • underground,
  • staircase,
  • idiosyncratic,
  • jet liner,
  • sally,
  • unavowed,
  • footpath,
  • isolation,
  • closed,
  • certain,
  • several,
  • encrypted,
  • peculiar,
  • implanted,
  • inaccessible,
  • Fusileer,
  • reclusive,
  • hermitical,
  • own,
  • illegal,
  • common carrier,
  • profound,
  • confer with,
  • restrictive,
  • stylish,
  • commander,
  • especial,
  • incognito,
  • clubby,
  • enlisted man,
  • swank,
  • Undescribed,
  • implicit,
  • undisclosed,
  • Shrouded,
  • Jager,
  • knowing,
  • unrecorded,
  • only,
  • walk,
  • causeway,
  • privateer,
  • Egoistically,
  • idiomatic.

Antonyms for Private:

• adj.

  • all
    public.
  • personal, intimate
    ordinary, common, sociable, known, public, unconcealed, open, revealed.
  • Other antonyms:
    avowed, promulgated, widespread, aboveboard, overt, broad, declared, disclosed, unclassified, evident, in the public eye, proclaimed, undisguised, manifest, patent, regular, typical, universal, unconcealed, impersonal, clear, announced, plain, vulgar, rife, normal, publicized, advertised, generic, professed, aired, outward, published, current, prevalent, acknowledged, heralded, well-known, reported, obvious, straightforward, broadcast.