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overt

[ oh-vurt, oh-vurt ]

adjective

  1. open to view or knowledge; not concealed or secret:

    overt hostility.

    Synonyms: public, apparent, manifest, plain

    Antonyms: private

  2. Heraldry. (of a device, as a purse) represented as open:

    a purse overt.



overt

/ əʊˈvɜːt; ˈəʊvɜːt /

adjective

  1. open to view; observable
  2. law open; deliberate. Criminal intent may be inferred from an overt act


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Derived Forms

  • ˈovertness, noun
  • ˈovertly, adverb

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Other Words From

  • uno·vert adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of overt1

1275–1325; Middle English < Old French, past participle of ouvrir to open < Vulgar Latin *ōperīre, for Latin aperīre

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Word History and Origins

Origin of overt1

C14: via Old French, from ovrir to open, from Latin aperīre

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Example Sentences

The dress bizarrely burdened Hurley with a ready-made character to play up to, which she did without overt complaint.

Poverty, alienation, estrangement, continuously aggravated by racism, overt and institutional.

They may now also raise unlimited amounts of money to fund such overt political messages.

Black-white relations had signifiers other than the overt events of the civil rights movement.

Instead, the film focuses specifically on Hayward and her family, stripped of overt political messages or loaded debates.

Yet how came it that even a low-caste mongrel of a Lascar should offer such an overt insult to a Brahmin!

In the first place, one element of public-house talk—the overt or sly indecency—is left out.

There is, of course, no overt novelty in the theory advanced by Bronson Howard in his address.

The inexorable unwritten law which forbids overt scandal sentenced me.

Unlike the others, there is nothing hasty or overt in his plans.

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