HIDDEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hidden mean? 

• HIDDEN (adjective)
  The adjective HIDDEN has 3 senses:

1. not accessible to view

2. designed to elude detection

3. difficult to find

  Familiarity information: HIDDEN used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIDDEN (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:

Designed to elude detection

Synonyms:

hidden; secret

Context example:

the secret compartment in the desk

Similar:

concealed (hidden on any grounds for any motive)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Difficult to find

Synonyms:

hidden; obscure

Context example:

an obscure retreat

Similar:

concealed (hidden on any grounds for any motive)

 Context examples 

They knew what was never printed in the newspapers—the wires and strings and the hidden hands that made the puppets dance.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

What was vital was overlaid and hidden by what was irrelevant.

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

If anyone has hidden a secret from you, you will discover the truth.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The peasant answered: “In the first place, he says that there is some wine hidden under the pillow.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Young men have their hidden troubles—some affair of the heart, perhaps, which we have never known.

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

To-day is a grey day, and the sun as I write is hidden in thick clouds, high over Kettleness.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A team of University of Utah seismologists has discovered a reservoir of hot, partly molten rock hidden 12 to 28 miles beneath Yellowstone's supervolcano.

(Yellowstone magma discovery, NSF)

Water ice is not stable on the surface of Ceres over long time periods unless it is hidden in shadows, as in the case of Juling.

(NASA Dawn Reveals Recent Changes in Ceres' Surface, NASA)

The targeted supermassive black hole is hidden in plain sight, lurking in the center of the Milky Way in a region called the Sagittarius constellation, some 26,000 light years from Earth.

(Astronomers Piece Together First Image of Black Hole, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The making known of a fact that had previously been hidden; release of information.

(Disclosure, NCI Thesaurus)