Synonyms and Antonyms of furtive
1
given to acting in secret and to concealing one's intentions
- a furtive guy who always seems to be up to something, and usually that something is no-good
artful, crafty, cunning, devious, foxy, guileful, slick, wily
close, closemouthed, reticent, secretive
clandestine, covert, dark
deceitful, deceiving, deceptive, devious, duplicitous, trickish, tricky, underhand, underhanded
cheating, crooked, defrauding, dishonest, dissembling, double-dealing, knavish, two-faced
lying, mendacious, untrustworthy, untruthful
insidious, perfidious, serpentine, treacherous
aboveboard, forthright, plainspoken, straightforward
candid, direct, foursquare, frank, open, plain
honest, trustworthy, truthful
2
undertaken or done so as to escape being observed or known by others
- gave each other furtive glances as we watched our friend open the booby-trapped soda
backstairs, behind-the-scenes, clandestine, covert, hole-and-corner, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, private, privy, secret, sneak, sneaking, sneaky, stealth, stealthy, surreptitious, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded
back-channel, closed-door, off-the-books, off-the-record
classified, confidential, restricted, top secret, undisclosed
concealed, hidden, secreted, subterranean, unadvertised, unexposed
acknowledged, avowed
aboveboard, straightforward, unconcealed, undisguised
unclassified, unrestricted
clear, evident, manifest, obvious, patent, plain
