CONCEALED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does concealed mean? 

• CONCEALED (adjective)
  The adjective CONCEALED has 2 senses:

1. not accessible to view

2. hidden on any grounds for any motive

  Familiarity information: CONCEALED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONCEALED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not accessible to view

Synonyms:

concealed; hidden; out of sight

Context example:

in stormy weather the stars are out of sight

Similar:

invisible; unseeable (impossible or nearly impossible to see; imperceptible by the eye)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Hidden on any grounds for any motive

Context example:

a concealed compartment in his briefcase

Similar:

bushwhacking (lying in ambush)

dark (secret)

furtive; sneak; sneaky; stealthy; surreptitious (marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed)

hidden; obscure (difficult to find)

hidden; secret (designed to elude detection)

incognito (with your identity concealed)

sealed (undisclosed for the time being)

secret (not open or public; kept private or not revealed)

shady (quiet, dark, or concealed)

sneaking; unavowed (not openly expressed)

Also:

covert (secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed)

Antonym:

unconcealed (not concealed or hidden)

 Context examples 

"Here, Jane!" he said; and I walked round to the other side of a large bed, which with its drawn curtains concealed a considerable portion of the chamber.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I had been long afraid of this resolution, and therefore concealed from her some little unlucky adventures, that happened in those times when I was left by myself.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He concealed his disappointment, and joined so easily with her in her criticism that she did not realize that deep down in him was running a strong undercurrent of disagreement.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The king, however, had a lion which was a wondrous animal, for he knew all concealed and secret things.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

You were satisfied that he could not have been concealed in the room all the time, or in the corridor which you have just described as dimly lighted?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Edith Nelson met the unexpected at every turn of the trail, and she trained her vision so that she saw in the landscape, not the obvious, but the concealed.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“You’ll find it knockin’ about by the bitts,” Leach said, sitting down on the edge of the bunk in which I was concealed.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The large office-ruler was stuck into his waistcoat, and was not so well concealed but that a foot or more of that instrument protruded from his bosom, like a new kind of shirt-frill.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

My hand-mirror had been broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of the glass in my handkerchief.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A low, stealthy sound came to my ears, not from the direction of Baker Street, but from the back of the very house in which we lay concealed.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)