hush-hush
hush-hush adjective: secret, not spoken of (or spoken of only in hushed whispers between insiders).
Adjective
hush-hush (comparative more hush-hush, superlative most hush-hush)
- Secret, not spoken of (or spoken of only in hushed whispers between insiders).
- The spy program was very hush-hush: no-one ever spoke of it.
- The sex lottery went over big in its first try with number runners selling tickets and making the entire affair a very hush-hush production.6 August 1953, “Jet”, in American political and entertainment news., volume 4, Johnson Publishing Company, pages 21-22
Noun
hush-hush (uncountable)
hush-hush meaning in Urdu and Malayalam
hush-hush in Urdu
- انتہائی راز دارانہ, خفیہ, زبان بندی
hush-hush in Malayalam
- secret, classified, top secret
- അങ്ങേയറ്റം രഹസ്യമായുള്ള, രഹസ്യമായ, നിഗൂഢമായ, ഗുഹ്യ, ഛന്ദ, ഛന്ന
Forms of hush-hush
| comparative | more hush-hush |
|---|---|
| superlative | most hush-hush |
Phrases with hush-hush
Questions about hush-hush
- What does hush-hush mean?
- Hush-hush means secret, not spoken of (or spoken of only in hushed whispers between insiders).
- What is hush-hush in Urdu?
- Hush-hush in Urdu is انتہائی راز دارانہ, خفیہ, زبان بندی. See Hush-hush meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is hush-hush?
- Hush-hush can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near hush-hush in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: hush-hush (page history and authors); hush-hush (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hush-hush (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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