CONFIDENTIAL Synonyms: 79 Similar and Opposite Words

confidential

adjective

ˌkän-fə-ˈden(t)-shəl

Definition of confidential

as in private

not known or meant to be known by the general populace someone leaked confidential government information to the press

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Recent Examples of confidential Users handling confidential materials should carefully consider this limitation before uploading sensitive project content online. — New Atlas, 24 Sep. 2026 Sumstad’s lawsuit alleges confidential details of the Internal Affairs investigations were leaked to the media without showing that she had been exonerated. — Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 24 Sep. 2026 In a Tuesday hearing, a judge allowed Evans to continue to file motions, but said the case should be kept confidential. — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 24 Sep. 2026 The Los Angeles Unified School District did not share why James was fired, calling it a confidential personnel matter. — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for confidential

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Adjective

The Aries Full Moon illuminates your private 12th house, bringing an old emotion, habit, memory, or attachment closer to the surface.

— Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 26 Sep. 2026
For a special occasion, reserve a sunset or moonlit dinner in one of four private cabanas on the sand.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of private

Adjective

Richard Kurin, a fifty-year veteran of the institution, launched a top-secret study of the question in 2011.

— Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
On August 31, 1940, Leigh and Olivier took a secret road trip to California, joined by screenwriter Garson Kanin and Katharine Hepburn.

— Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of secret

Adjective

The airline industry did, however, push for changes to the way disruptions are classified.

— Bailey Berg, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Sep. 2026
The Justice Department, meanwhile, has sought interviews with law enforcement officials involved in the 2022 FBI search for classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.

— ABC News, ABC News, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of classified

Adjective

The announcements came at Meta Connect 2026 as the company continues shifting its wearable strategy toward glasses and its personal AI agent, Muse.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 24 Sep. 2026
Complimentary fitness classes, one-on-one personal training, nutrition consults, Pilates, breathing classes, and flow yoga are among many other options.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of personal

Adjective

Speaking at Semafor’s The Next 3 Billion summit in New York, Samaila Zubairu said the AFC engaged directly with Senegal’s new administration after the discovery of undisclosed loans under the prior government sent public debt past 130% of GDP.

— Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 25 Sep. 2026
Kathryn Hunter, John Ratzenberger, and Jamie Costa will also voice as-yet-undisclosed characters.

— Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of undisclosed

Adjective

Their job is to reduce the world to a series of numbers that can be punched into increasingly complex statistical equations and published in esoteric journals with high barriers to entry and minuscule readerships.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026
Another challenge is that though the Langlands program is sweeping and unifying, the mathematical correspondences themselves are excruciatingly specific and esoteric.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of esoteric

Adjective

More than 70 people who bought, owned or were recorded with smart glasses have sued the company, alleging in one lawsuit filed this year that intimate images were exposed to contract workers tasked with training artificial intelligence.

— Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026
What begins as an intimate portrait of an enigmatic felon becomes a mind-bending three-year journey into the abyss.

— Isabelle Farina, Variety, 23 Sep. 2026

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