Stealth

Quick meaning: Stealth is a noun meaning (especially military, computing) To conceal or infiltrate through the use of stealth.

Meaning

(especially military, computing) To conceal or infiltrate through the use of stealth.

More Meanings

1. Surreptitious; secret; not openly acknowledged.
2. (military, aviation, vehicles, technology) Having properties that diminish radar signatures.
3. (transgender) Hiding one's transgender status (in general or in specific areas of one's life, e.g. at work) after transition.
4. (uncountable) The attribute or characteristic of acting in secrecy, or in such a way that the actions are unnoticed or difficult to detect by others.
5. (archaic, countable) An act of secrecy, especially one involving thievery.
6. (slang, transitive) To subject (someone) to stealthing (sexual intercourse without a condom through deception, for example removing the condom mid-act).

Example Sentences

go stealth; be stealth; live stealth

Claudio.[...] But it chances The stealth of our most mutuall entertainment With Character too grosse, is writ on Iuliet.

[The King] thinks it fit[...] that restitution according to this order be made to the petitioners for stealths committed upon them last winter (273).

For example a sex worker complained about a client who 'stealthed' her by removing a condom and prosecuted him for rape. The court found him guilty (R v Campos).

Word Forms

• stealths
• stealthing
• stealthed

Synonyms for stealth

Depending on context, synonyms include closeted, stealing.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stealing, sneak, elusive, secrecy, occult, secret.

Related Dictionary Tools