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keep a low profile

keep a low profile verb: to be discreet and quiet.

Verb

keep a low profile (third-person singular simple present keeps a low profile, present participle keeping a low profile, simple past and past participle kept a low profile)

  1. (idiomatic) To be discreet and quiet.
    • He kept a low profile during the carnival.

keep a low profile meaning in Bengali, Malayalam, Kannada and Arabic

keep a low profile in Bengali

বিচক্ষণ এবং শান্ত থাকা

keep a low profile in Malayalam

keep out of the public eye, lie low, keep quiet
ഒതുങ്ങിക്കൂടുക, നിശബ്ദമാകുക, മിണ്ടാതിരിക്കുക, പതുങ്ങിക്കിടക്കുക, മൗനം പാലിക്കുക, താണിരിക്കുക

keep a low profile in Kannada

ಇತರರ ಗಮನ ಸೆಳೆಯದಿರು, ಎಲೆಮರೆಯ ಕಾಯಾಗಿರು, ಕಣ್ಣಿಗೆ ಬೀಳದೆ ಇರು

keep a low profile in Arabic

to be quiet
تَوَارَى عَنْ الْأَنْظَار tawārā ʕan al-ʔanẓār

Synonyms of keep a low profile

Forms of keep a low profile

third-person singular presentkeeps a low profile
present participlekeeping a low profile
past participlekept a low profile
pastkept a low profile

Questions about keep a low profile

What does keep a low profile mean?
Keep a low profile means to be discreet and quiet.
What is keep a low profile in Bengali?
Keep a low profile in Bengali is বিচক্ষণ এবং শান্ত থাকা. See Keep a low profile meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is keep a low profile?
Keep a low profile is a verb.
What is the past tense of keep a low profile?
The past tense of keep a low profile is kept a low profile.

Words near keep a low profile in the dictionary

  1. keep a cool head
  2. keep a dog and bark oneself
  3. keep a lid on
  4. keep a look-out
  5. keep a lookout
  6. keep a low profile
  7. keep a tight rein on
  8. keep a watch out
  9. keep a weather eye open
  10. keep across
  11. keep ahead

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Adapted from Wiktionary: keep a low profile (page history and authors); keep a low profile (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); keep a low profile (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); keep a low profile (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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