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Secretive Pronunciation

Pronounce Secretive as S EH K R EH T IY V EH.

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    Secretive phonetic transcription:

    When you start learning English, it's important to become familiar with the typical sounds of the language. The best way to do this is by studying phonetics. Below is the UK transcription for the word 'secretive'. Get the right phonetic representation for any word using our free Phonetic Transcription Tool.

    • Traditional IPA representation of secretive: /sɛkrɛtɪvɛ/
    • Modern IPA representation of secretive: /sɛcrɛtɪvɛ/

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    List of meaning for secretive

    describes someone who hides their intentions, thoughts, and actions from other people

    close, closelipped, closemouthed, secretive, tightlipped(adj)

    inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information

    "although they knew her whereabouts her friends kept close about it"

    given to keeping one's activities hidden from public observation or knowledge

    the intelligence agency remained secretive despite the media's demands for more openness in government

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    secretive in sentence

    1. True cabalistic study is taught amongst a select few, making it secretive and cliquish.

    2. To stalk someone is to follow them around in a secretive manner.

    3. No one would dare pry the secretive Henry about his new job.

    4. For years before the bust, the doctor’s secretive practices had been conducted in the makeshift facility.

    5. A secretive group of mobsters were doing the dirty work while the boss got all of the credit.

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    Quotes and sayings containing the term secretive

    Everybody is paranoid about some leak on Facebook or Instagram or YouTube… I think the secrecy is kind of understandable, but also there is an element of hype about it that makes it… the more secretive it is, the more special it is. And certainly ‘Game of Thrones’ plays that. They misinform the crowd and they give them tidbits to send them in wrong directions.

    – Alexander Siddig

    It was n’t State Department officials, State Department was n’t [ Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs ] Roberta Jacobson or John Kerry, it was National Security Council officials, you sent unqualified people to negotiate with hardened, brutal spies and representatives of tyrants... It was negotiated at a secretive level involving agencies under the complete control of the White House, as a political move …. And that mismatch is apparent in this sort of deal that was made.

    – Marco Rubio

    They're so secretive these days, when we did the first one no one cared.

    – Mark Hamill

    Its been very secretive and they have an ongoing investigation.

    – British Deese

    But for The FBI to get involved that quick and be so secretive about The FBI, there was a lot of stuff going on up there.

    – Otero County

    You don’t want to be secretive about things.

    – Michael Coates

    These were first Russian fighters intercepted by NATO's Baltic air police this year, civil aviation over the Baltic Sea was endangered because of the secretive way the airplanes flew.

    – Viktorija Cieminyte

    We’ve got people up there( at Sunspot) that requested us to standby while they evacuate it. Nobody would really elaborate on any of the circumstances as to why. The FBI were up there. What their purpose was nobody will say. but for The FBI to get involved that quick and be so secretive about The FBI, there was a lot of stuff going on up there.

    – Otero County

    The committee chose to ignore the efforts which I have undertaken over the past 37 years to promote an atmosphere of compliance within the men's basketball program, instead, they chose to focus on the rogue and secretive actions of a former employee of the local YMCA and my former director of basketball operations in order to impose an unprecedented series of penalties upon the university and the men's basketball program.

    – Jim Boeheim

    Civil aviation over the Baltic Sea was endangered because of the secretive way the airplanes flew.

    – Viktorija Cieminyte

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