OVERT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does overt mean? 

• OVERT (adjective)
  The adjective OVERT has 1 sense:

1. open and observable; not secret or hidden

  Familiarity information: OVERT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OVERT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Open and observable; not secret or hidden

Synonyms:

open; overt

Context example:

open ballots

Similar:

bald; barefaced (with no effort to conceal)

naked; raw (devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure)

undisguised (plain to see)

visible (obvious to the eye)

Also:

explicit; expressed (precisely and clearly expressed or readily observable; leaving nothing to implication)

public (not private; open to or concerning the people as a whole)

unconcealed (not concealed or hidden)

Antonym:

covert (secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed)

 Context examples 

A period in which the infection is present in the host without producing overt symptoms.

(Latent Infection, NCI Thesaurus)

Benign neoplastic cells resemble normal cells without exhibiting significant cytologic atypia, while malignant cells exhibit overt signs such as dysplastic features, atypical mitotic figures, necrosis, nuclear pleomorphism, and anaplasia.

(Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

Despite an unremarkable clinical course, continued unrestricted gluten intake may predispose to the same sequelae as overt disease.

(Latent Celiac Disease, NCI Thesaurus)

Non-insulin-dependent overt diabetes: blood glucose 384+/- 134 mg/dl (plasma insulin at 60 min following intragastric glucose load 83.3 +/-10.2mU/mL) and hypertension blood pressure 176 +/-8mmHg.

(CRDH, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)

Without one overt act of hostility, one upbraiding word, he contrived to impress me momently with the conviction that I was put beyond the pale of his favour.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

White Fang pricked his ears and investigated it suspiciously, managing to look at the same time both at the meat and the god, alert for any overt act, his body tense and ready to spring away at the first sign of hostility.

(White Fang, by Jack London)