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Synonyms for hidden
Synonyms for hidden: secret, obscure and secluded. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for hidden
Interchangeable with hidden, one per sense
Audited under hidden's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one hidden carries in that sense.
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name hidden as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- secludedsecluded is an adjective in the sense "hidden away and private, away from other people"
two of these come from hidden's own entries in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
designed to elude detection
A hidden room or place of concealment such as a priest hole.
hidden in 2 more sentences, same sense
- He tucked the letter into a hidden pocket sewn inside the lining of his coat.
- The old house on the corner has a hidden entrance disguised as a garden wall.
How it behaves: In this sense hidden usually appears as an attributive adjective directly before a concrete noun such as room, door, passage, or compartment, and often pairs with the prepositional phrase 'from view'.
The true synonym
secret
Same sentence, swapped: A secret room or place of concealment such as a priest hole.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- potential
- sleeping
- muffled
Opposites, in this sense
visible, exposed and open reverse hidden as it is used in the sentence above. A different sense of hidden takes different opposites, which is why these sit inside the sense and not at the top of the page.
- visible
- exposed
- open
difficult to find
A hidden cave.
The true synonym
obscure
Same sentence, swapped: A obscure cave.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- potential
- closed
- sleeping
Where hidden turns up in the game
hidden is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where hidden is the trap
- privateadjective, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is individual, in the sense "concerning one person exclusively", so hidden is there to be ruled out.
- unknownadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is unidentified, in the sense "being or having an unknown or unnamed source", and hidden is one of the three tiles that lose.
- buriedadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is interred, in the sense "placed in a grave", with hidden sitting one tile away.
- closedadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is unsympathetic, in the sense "not having an open mind", and hidden is on the board beside it.
Play hidden
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so hidden reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Sorted by difficulty rather than by topic, which is what an untagged word has to go on.
One vocabulary, two jobs
hidden is an answer in 2 puzzles and a wrong tile in 4. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.