Definitions for stealth

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Spelling: [stelth]

IPA: /stɛlθ/

Stealth is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 204 anagrams from letters in stealth (aehlstt).

Definitions for stealth

noun

1. secret, clandestine, or surreptitious procedure.
2. a furtive departure or entrance.
3. Obsolete. an act of stealing; theft. the thing stolen; booty.
4. (initial capital letter) 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.

adjective

1. surreptitious; secret; not openly acknowledged:

Origin of stealth

1200-50; Middle English stelthe; compare Old English stælthing theft. See steal, -th¹

Examples for stealth

Another senior Air Force official with stealth fighter experience agreed.

High flying and fast, the F-22 Raptor stealth jet is by far the most lethal fighter America has ever built.

A couple of years later, the stealth world did start to open up.

But they planned on carrying out their investigations by stealth.

Some of our clergy have slipt in by stealth now and then; but they have got up a farce of their own.

Of course for this action to be successful, it had to be performed with the stealth of sneak-thieves.

We do good by stealth, and blush to have it mentioned in our little bills.

He drew no water but by stealth and under the cloak of night.

The U.S. Navy is slowly preparing the first of its massive, 15,500-ton Zumwalt-class stealth destroyers for sea next year.

An independent “stealth expert” was a writer whom nobody had heard from before, and nobody heard from afterward.