stealth

Moving or acting quietly and secretly so that others do not notice.

• The hunter approached with stealth.
• They used stealth to avoid the guards.
• The cat moved through the grass with remarkable stealth.

How to use it: by stealth (The group entered the building by stealth.)

Similar words: secrecy, furtiveness

Common phrases: by stealth, use stealth, move with stealth

Technology that makes aircraft hard to detect with radar, or an aircraft using that technology.

• Stealth makes the aircraft harder to detect.
• The engineers improved its stealth by changing the shape.
• The military invested in stealth for its new bombers.

Common phrases: stealth technology, stealth aircraft, stealth bomber

Keeping your transgender history private after transition, so other people do not know it.

• She is stealth at work.
• He chose to go stealth after moving to another city.
• Some trans people live stealth for personal reasons.

Similar words: closeted

Common phrases: go stealth, be stealth, live stealth