hidden

Located or positioned out of sight; not visually apparent.

Adjective

  1. Located or positioned out of sight; not visually apparent.
    • hidden treasure; hidden talents
    • It was the Lost Oasis, the Oasis of the vision in the sand. […] Deep-hidden in the hollow, beneath the cliffs, it lay; and round it the happy verdure spread for many a rood. - 1892, James Yoxall, The Lonely Pyramid,...
    • One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination. -...
  2. Obscure.

Origin

Morphologically hid + -en.

Forms

more hidden most hidden

Synonyms

covered concealed dark dern hidden invisible inward latent nondisplayed obfuscated obfuscatory obscure obscured occluded occulted private recondite secluded secret secreted silent snug tect unapparent

Antonyms

apparent open overt visible

Hyponyms

covert

Related

crypto- hide

Derived

hidden agenda hidden asset hidden-ball trick hidden champion hidden city hidden code hidden curriculum hidden forest chipmunk hidden gem hidden in plain sight hidden layer hiddenly hidden Markov model hiddenmost hiddenness hidden-object game hidden quantity hidden tax hidden track hidden variable nonhidden semihidden

Noun

  1. A hidden answer clue; one in which the letters of the solution appear consecutively in the wordplay.
    • Hiddens are indicated thus; (e.g.) Grow (maraudinG ROWdies). - 1975, Games & Puzzles:
    • The two types of clue which everyone should aim to solve at first reading are anagrams and hiddens. - 1987, The Listener:
    • 16 of the 30 clues in this puzzle are hiddens; these are asterisked. - 2020 August 20, Telegraph Media Group Ltd, The Telegraph: How To Solve a Cryptic Crossword: Mastering cryptic crosswords made easy, Hachette UK,...

Forms

hiddens

Verb

  1. past participle of hide