Meaning and example
marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed
A furtive manner
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 1.203 places furtive in the uncommon range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 88.9% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
consternationUncommon
- Known by
- 89%
fear resulting from the awareness of danger
austereUncommon
- Known by
- 88.9%
severely simple
abjectUncommon
- Known by
- 88.8%
of the most contemptible kind
disparateUncommon
- Known by
- 88.8%
fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind
pithyUncommon
- Known by
- 89.2%
concise and full of meaning
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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