stealth
secret, clandestine, or surreptitious procedure.
a furtive departure or entrance.
Obsolete.
an act of stealing; theft.
the thing stolen; booty.
Stealth, Military. a U.S. Air Force project involving a range of technologies, with the purpose of developing aircraft that are difficult to detect by sight, sound, radar, and infrared energy.
not openly acknowledged; surreptitious; secret: They used underhand methods such as the stealth hiring of a competitor's CEO.Spending cuts are the stealth issue of this presidential race.
(of a transgender person) living as a cisgender member of one's identified gender, without revealing that one is transgender: For some transgender people, being stealth may be the safest option.
Origin of stealth
1Other words from stealth
- stealth·ful, adjective
- stealth·ful·ly, adverb
- stealth·less, adjective
Words Nearby stealth
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use stealth in a sentence
When Cerebras first came out of stealth last year, the company said it could significantly speed up the training of deep learning models.
The Trillion-Transistor Chip That Just Left a Supercomputer in the Dust | Jason Dorrier | November 22, 2020 | Singularity HubIn two years, the Cardinals have transformed from humiliation to stealth Super Bowl threat.
Kyler Murray runs out of miracles as Seahawks hang on to take over first place in NFC West | Mark Maske | November 20, 2020 | Washington PostStatespace launched out of stealth in 2017 with a product called Aim Lab.
Gaming startup Statespace raises $29 million, tops 1.5 million MAUs | Jordan Crook | November 12, 2020 | TechCrunchI can’t think of any other multiplayer experience that put so many resources into building a compelling stealth experience to play with friends.
All the ‘Assassin’s Creed’ games, ranked | Elise Favis, Gene Park | November 11, 2020 | Washington PostThe pressure you put on an area depends in part on your stealth and on the species you’re targeting, though Cobbs says environmental factors—temperature, rain, barometric pressure—seem to affect fish more than human pressure.
Don’t have a boat? Try bowfishing. | By Natalie Krebs/Outdoor Life | November 3, 2020 | Popular-Science
Another senior Air Force official with stealth fighter experience agreed.
New U.S. Stealth Jet Can’t Fire Its Gun Until 2019 | Dave Majumdar | December 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHigh flying and fast, the F-22 Raptor stealth jet is by far the most lethal fighter America has ever built.
Pentagon Worries That Russia Can Now Outshoot U.S. Stealth Jets | Dave Majumdar | December 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThat means it could take several missile shots to kill an enemy fighter, even for an advanced stealth aircraft like the Raptor.
Pentagon Worries That Russia Can Now Outshoot U.S. Stealth Jets | Dave Majumdar | December 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Chinese military has a new stealth jet, but what messages are they sending as it is prepared for active service?
Think advanced unmanned vehicles, all-aspect, broadband stealth, and undersea warfare.
The Pentagon May Finally Have a Plan to Keep America on Top | Bill Sweetman | November 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNonjurors and Scotch Episcopalians could only meet by stealth in private houses.
The English Church in the Eighteenth Century | Charles J. Abbey and John H. OvertonThen why these secret messages, and the gold thread, and the gardener's child's coat to be got by stealth?
Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays | VariousBut when Peter the Hermit took flight by stealth, the whole army raged in despair.
God Wills It! | William Stearns DavisAnd, as for the other band, these shall advance with stealth upon the open and hide behind the rocks.
Menotah | Ernest G. HenhamThe older men visited their homes on "leave of absence," (p. 027) the younger by stealth at night.
Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 | Various
British Dictionary definitions for stealth (1 of 2)
/ (stɛlθ) /
the act or characteristic of moving with extreme care and quietness, esp so as to avoid detection: the stealth of a cat
cunning or underhand procedure or dealing
archaic the act of stealing
Origin of stealth
1Derived forms of stealth
- stealthful, adjective
British Dictionary definitions for Stealth (2 of 2)
/ (stɛlθ) /
(modifier) informal denoting or referring to technology that aims to reduce the radar, thermal, and acoustic recognizability of aircraft and missiles
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Browse