Undercover vs. Secretive

Undercoveradjective

Performed or happening in secret.

Secretiveadjective

Having an inclination to secrecy

Undercoveradjective

Employed or engaged in spying or secret investigation.

Secretiveadjective

Relating to secretion

Undercovernoun

A person who works undercover.

Secretiveadjective

Tending to secrete, or to keep secret or private; as, a secretive disposition.

Undercoververb

To provide too little coverage.

Secretiveadjective

inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information;

‘although they knew her whereabouts her friends kept close about it’;

Undercoveradjective

conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods;

‘clandestine intelligence operations’; ‘cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines’; ‘hole-and-corner intrigue’; ‘secret missions’; ‘a secret agent’; ‘secret sales of arms’; ‘surreptitious mobilization of troops’; ‘an undercover investigation’; ‘underground resistance’;