# clandestine

- **Language:** English
- **Level:** C2 (Proficient)
- **Part of speech:** adjective
- **Pronunciation:** /klænˈdestɪn/
- **English:** done secretly, usually because it is not allowed
- **Persian:** پنهانی، مخفیانه

## Example

> They held a clandestine meeting at night.
> آن‌ها شبانه جلسه‌ی مخفیانه‌ای برگزار کردند.

## Word forms

- adverb: clandestinely

## Synonyms

secret, covert

## Opposites

open

## Common phrases

- clandestine meeting
- clandestine operation
- clandestine affair

## Related words

- [open](https://langai.darkube.ir/vocabulary/english/open): to move something so that things can go in or out (A1)
- [capitulate](https://langai.darkube.ir/vocabulary/english/capitulate): to stop resisting and agree to what is demanded (C2)
- [pernicious](https://langai.darkube.ir/vocabulary/english/pernicious): very harmful, often in a way that is hard to notice (C2)
- [pervasive](https://langai.darkube.ir/vocabulary/english/pervasive): present or noticeable in every part of something (C2)
- [ubiquitous](https://langai.darkube.ir/vocabulary/english/ubiquitous): seeming to be present everywhere (C2)
- [vindicate](https://langai.darkube.ir/vocabulary/english/vindicate): to prove that someone or something was right or not guilty (C2)
- [autonomy](https://langai.darkube.ir/vocabulary/english/autonomy): the freedom to make your own decisions (C1)
- [consensus](https://langai.darkube.ir/vocabulary/english/consensus): an opinion that all members of a group agree with (C1)

Source: https://langai.darkube.ir/vocabulary/english/clandestine