veiled

English

Adjective

veiled

1. Covered by a veil.
   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

     As usual, Ayesha was veiled like the marble Truth (by the way, I wonder if she originally got the idea of covering up her beauty from that statue?).

2. (figurative) Partly hidden or concealed.

   veiled threats

   • 2014, J. Reid Meloy, Jens Hoffmann, International Handbook of Threat Assessment, page 121:

     When asked about her veiled threat to Professor Jones, that she'd “be sorry,” Ms. Smith said she meant that she would file a formal complaint against Professor Jones for harassment.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:hidden

Derived terms

• veiled plate

 

Translations

(literally) covered by a veil

• Azerbaijani: başıörtülü
• German: verschleiert (de)
• Italian: velato (it)
• Ottoman Turkish: محجوب (mahcub)
• Russian: завуали́рованный (ru) (zavualírovannyj)
• Swedish: beslöjad
• Ukrainian: завуальо́ваний (zavualʹóvanyj)

(figuratively) partly hidden or concealed

• German: verschleiert (de)
• Italian: velato (it)
• Polish: zawoalowany
• Russian: завуали́рованный (ru) (zavualírovannyj)
• Swedish: förtäckt (sv)
• Ukrainian: завуальо́ваний (zavualʹóvanyj)

Verb

veiled

1. simple past and past participle of veil

Anagrams

• levied