veiled
veiled adjective: covered by a veil. Also the simple past and past participle of veil.
Adjective
veiled
- Covered by a veil.
- As usual, Ayesha was veiled like the marble Truth (by the way, I wonder if she originally got the idea of covering up her beauty from that statue?).1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
- Partly hidden or concealed.
- veiled threats
- When asked about her veiled threat to Professor Jones, that she'd “be sorry,” Ms. Smith said she meant that she would file a formal complaint against Professor Jones for harassment.2014, J. Reid Meloy, Jens Hoffmann, International Handbook of Threat Assessment, page 121
Also used as
veiled is also the simple past and past participle of veil.
Examples of veiled in a sentence
- The forest fire was veiled by smoke, but I could hear it clearly.
- Wilde’s choice for his main protagonist’s name a “veiled reference to ‘Dorian’ or ‘Greek’ love”.
- That a great deal of that bicentrism was thinly veiled homophobia didn't bother them in the least.
Words formed from veiled
Phrases with veiled
Questions about veiled
- What does veiled mean?
- Veiled means covered by a veil.
- What part of speech is veiled?
- Veiled is an adjective.
Words near veiled in the dictionary
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