VEILED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does veiled mean? 

• VEILED (adjective)
  The adjective VEILED has 2 senses:

1. having or as if having a veil or concealing cover

2. muted or unclear

  Familiarity information: VEILED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VEILED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having or as if having a veil or concealing cover

Context example:

veiled insults

Antonym:

unveiled (revealed; especially by having a veil removed)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Muted or unclear

Context example:

the image is veiled or foggy

Similar:

indistinct (not clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand)

 Context examples 

Wainwright—the hunter whom Wolf Larsen had stolen with boat and men—took advantage of the veiled sea and escaped.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in the window, rose as we entered.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

No veiled future dimly glanced upon him in the moonbeams.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She indeed veiled her grief and strove to act the comforter to us all.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

This, at least, was real, he thought, and turned on the other side so that he might see the reality of the world which had been veiled from him before by the vision.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

So I turned at the door: I saw a robed and veiled figure, so unlike my usual self that it seemed almost the image of a stranger.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In the distance, detail was veiled and blurred by a purple haze, but behind this purple haze, he knew, was the glamour of the unknown, the lure of romance.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Even on Sunday, when it veiled its more florid charms and lay comparatively empty of passage, the street shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood, like a fire in a forest; and with its freshly painted shutters, well-polished brasses, and general cleanliness and gaiety of note, instantly caught and pleased the eye of the passenger.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

While Laurie listlessly watched the procession of priests under their canopies, white-veiled nuns bearing lighted tapers, and some brotherhood in blue chanting as they walked, Amy watched him, and felt a new sort of shyness steal over her, for he was changed, and she could not find the merry-faced boy she left in the moody-looking man beside her.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It was a quarter of a mile away when a thick squall of rain veiled it from view.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)