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# stealthy

«stealthy» in Mova's school dictionary: **quiet and secret, moving so as not to be heard or seen** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (stealthy, stealthier, stealthiest)

### meaning for a pupil

Stealthy means quiet and secret, moving so as not to be heard or seen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stealthy/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a stealthy animal or person creeps up on its prey or victim

### examples

- The stealthy cat crossed the yard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stealthy/#x1)
- We heard stealthy steps on the stairs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stealthy/#x2)
- A stealthy thief took the purse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stealthy/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «stealthy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stealthy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.