| 单词 | overt |
| 释义 | overt (once / 3305 pages) adj Overt means open and done in plain sight. An overt attempt to get your teacher off-track might fail. Instead, try asking subtle questions about her kids, and she'll stay off topic all class. If you speak French, remember that overt is the same as the French ouvert "open." If you don't speak French, give up all hope of ever learning this word. Just kidding –– forgive the overt attempt at humor. English speakers, here's your trick for remembering the difference between overt and covert: overt = "open," covert = "covered." WORD FAMILYovert: overtly USAGE EXAMPLESAfter all, Gilbert & Sullivan operettas draw much of their comedy from overt references to their own artifice. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) But Trump’s win and Clinton’s loss simply represented millions of voters’ failure to confront misogyny, however latent or overt. Salon(Dec 26, 2016) Overt, unsanctioned religious activities are a very different matter. Seattle Times(Dec 22, 2016) adj open and observable; not secret or hidden an overt lie overt hostility overt intelligence gathering Syn|Ant open explicit, expressed precisely and clearly expressed or readily observable; leaving nothing to implication bald, barefacedwith no effort to conceal naked, rawdevoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure undisguisedplain to see visibleobvious to the eye publicnot private; open to or concerning the people as a whole unconcealednot concealed or hidden covert secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed implicit, inexplicitimplied though not directly expressed; inherent in the nature of something backstair, backstairs, furtivesecret and sly or sordid black(of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover, undergroundconducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods secretindulging only covertly collusive, connivingacting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end cloaked, disguised, maskedhaving its true character concealed with the intent of misleading secretcommunicated covertly behind-the-scenes, sub-rosa, under-the-tabledesigned and carried out secretly or confidentially subterranean, subterraneous, ulteriorlying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed) under wrapskept secret undisclosed, unrevealednot made known concealedhidden on any grounds for any motive invisible, unseeableimpossible or nearly impossible to see; imperceptible by the eye |
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