V. be invisible, be hidden,
lurk, escape notice, render invisible,
conceal, put out of sight, not see, lose sight of
Adj. invisible,
imperceptible,
undiscernible,
indiscernible, unapparent, non-apparent, out of sight, not in sight, a perte de vue, behind the scenes, behind the curtain, viewless, sightless, inconspicuous, unconspicuous, unseen &c. (see see ),
covert,
eclipsed, under an eclipse,
dim,
mysterious, dark, obscure, confused, indistinct, indistinguishable,
shadowy, indefinite, undefined, ill-defined, ill-marked,
blurred,
fuzzy, out of focus,
misty,
delitescent, hidden, obscured, covered, veiled (concealed) 528
Phr. "full many a flower is born to blush unseen"
N. {ant. 525} latency, inexpression, hidden meaning, occult meaning,
occultness,
mystery,
cabala,
anagoge, silence,
concealment, more than meets the eye, more than meets the ear, delphic oracle, le dessous des cartes, undercurrent,
implication, logical implication, logical consequence,
entailment, allusion,
insinuation,
innuendo,
adumbration, "something rotten in the state of denmark", snake in the grass, secret, darkness,
invisibility,
imperceptibility V. be latent,
lurk,
smolder, underlie, make no sign, escape observation, escape detection, escape recognition, lie hid, laugh in one's sleeve, keep back, involve, imply, understand, allude to,
infer, leave an inference,
entail,
whisper, read between the lines
Adj. latent,
lurking, secret,
occult, implied,
dormant,
abeyant, unapparent, unknown, unseen, in the background, invisible, indiscoverable, dark,
impenetrable,
unspied, unsuspected, unsaid, unwritten, unpublished, unbreathed, untalked of, untold, unsung, unexposed, unproclaimed,
undisclosed, unexpressed, not expressed,
tacit, undeveloped,
solved, unexplained, untraced, undiscovered,
untracked,
unexplored, uninvented, indirect,
crooked,
inferential, by inference, by implication,
implicit, constructive,
allusive,
covert,
muffled, steganographic, understood, underhand, underground,
delitescent, concealed
Adv. by a side wind, sub silentio, in the background, behind the scenes, behind one's back, on the tip of one's tongue, secretly, between the lines
Phr. "thereby hangs a tale", tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus, where there's smoke, there's fire
