stealth
secret, clandestine, or surreptitious procedure.
a furtive departure or entrance.
Obsolete.
an act of stealing; theft.
the thing stolen; booty.
Stealth, Military. a U.S. Air Force project involving a range of technologies, with the purpose of developing aircraft that are difficult to detect by sight, sound, radar, and infrared energy.
not openly acknowledged; surreptitious; secret: They used underhand methods such as the stealth hiring of a competitor's CEO.Spending cuts are the stealth issue of this presidential race.
(of a transgender person) living as a cisgender member of one's identified gender, without revealing that one is transgender: For some transgender people, being stealth may be the safest option.
Origin of stealth
1Other words from stealth
- stealth·ful, adjective
- stealth·ful·ly, adverb
- stealth·less, adjective
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British Dictionary definitions for stealth (1 of 2)
/ (stɛlθ) /
the act or characteristic of moving with extreme care and quietness, esp so as to avoid detection: the stealth of a cat
cunning or underhand procedure or dealing
archaic the act of stealing
Origin of stealth
1Derived forms of stealth
- stealthful, adjective
British Dictionary definitions for Stealth (2 of 2)
/ (stɛlθ) /
(modifier) informal denoting or referring to technology that aims to reduce the radar, thermal, and acoustic recognizability of aircraft and missiles
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