undercover

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: un=der=cov=er

OXFORD DICTIONARY

undercover, adj. (usu. attrib.)
1 surreptitious.
2 engaged in spying, esp. by working with or among those to be observed (undercover agent).

THESAURUS

undercover

above water, abstruse, armored, at anchor, back-door, backstairs, beclouded, behind the curtain, behind the scenes, behind the veil, blind, buried, cased, ceiled, clandestine, cloaked, close, clouded, coated, concealed, confidential, coped, covered, covert, covertly, cowled, curtained, doggo, eclipsed, encapsulated, encapsuled, encased, enveloped, enwrapped, feline, filmed, floored, furtive, hid, hidden, hidden out, hidlings, high and dry, hole-and-corner, hooded, housed, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, in a cloud, in a corner, in a fog, in a whisper, in ambush, in darkness, in eclipse, in harbor, in hiding, in hidlings, in purdah, in safety, in secret, in the background, in the clear, in the dark, in the wings, incommunicado, latent, loricate, loricated, lurking, mantled, masked, muffled, mysterious, nobody the wiser, obfuscated, obscure, obscured, occult, occulted, on, on tiptoe, out of danger, packaged, past danger, paved, private, privy, prowling, pussyfoot, pussyfooted, quiet, recondite, roofed-in, screened, scummed, secluded, secluse, secret, secretly, sequestered, sheathed, shelled, shielded, shifty, shrouded, skulking, slinking, slinky, sly, sneaking, sneaky, sotto voce, stealing, stealthy, sub rosa, surreptitious, swathed, tented, terra firma, under an eclipse, under cover, under house arrest, under the breath, under the rose, under wraps, under-the-counter, under-the-table, underground, underhand, underhanded, underneath, unknown, unobtrusive, veiled, waiting concealed, walled, walled-in, with bated breath, wrapped, wrapped in clouds

ROGET THESAURUS

undercover

Concealment

N concealment, hiding, occultation, mystification, seal of secrecy, screen, disguise, masquerade, masked battery, hiding place, cryptography, steganography, freemasonry, stealth, stealthiness, sneakiness, obreption, slyness, latitancy, latitation, seclusion, privacy, secrecy, secretness, incognita, reticence, reserve, mental reserve, reservation, arriere pensee, suppression, evasion, white lie, misprision, silence, suppression of truth, underhand dealing, closeness, secretiveness, mystery, latency, snake in the grass, secret, stowaway, concealed, hidden, secret, recondite, mystic, cabalistic, occult, dark, cryptic, cryptical, private, privy, in petto, auricular, clandestine, close, inviolate, tortuous, behind a screen, undercover, under an eclipse, in ambush, in hiding, in disguise, in a cloud, in a fog, in a mist, in a haze, in a dark corner, in the shade, in the dark, clouded, wrapped in clouds, wrapt in clouds, invisible, buried, underground, perdu, secluded, undisclosed &c, untold, covert, untraceable, mysterious, irrevealable, inviolable, confidential, esoteric, not to be spoken of, unmentionable, obreptitious, furtive, stealthy, feline, skulking, surreptitious, underhand, hole and corner, sly, secretive, evasive, reserved, reticent, uncommunicative, buttoned up, close, close as wax, taciturn, secretly, in secret, in private, in one's sleeve, in holes and corners, in the dark, januis clausis, with closed doors, a huis clos, hugger mugger, a la derobee, under the cloak of, under the rose, under the table, sub rosa, en tapinois, in the background, aside, on the sly, with bated breath, sotto voce, in a whisper, without beat of drum, a la sourdine, behind the veil, beyond mortal ken, beyond the grave, beyond the veil, hid from mortal vision, into the eternal secret, into the realms supersensible, into the supreme mystery, in confidence, in strict confidence, in strictest confidence, confidentially, between ourselves, between you and me, between you and me and the bedpost, entre nous, inter nos, under the seal of secrecy, a couvert, underhand, by stealth, like a thief in the night, stealthily, behind the scenes, behind the curtain, behind one's back, behind a screen, incognito, in camera, it must go no further, it will go no further, don't tell a soul, tell it not in Gath, nobody the wiser, alitur vitium vivitque tegendo, let it be tenable in your silence still, background information, deep background information, deep background, background session, backgrounder, not for attribution.