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shrouded

adjectiveC1Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,753 of 15,258neutral

Shrouded means covered and hidden from view. Shrouded in mist, shrouded in secrecy, shrouded from sight.

Shrouded in secrecy and shrouded in mist are the two phrases that carry the word, and both borrow the funeral image without meaning to. A shroud is the cloth a body is wrapped in, which is why the word is never neutral.

Definitions of shrouded

  1. 1adjectiveshroudedCovered and hidden from view.C1

    “The mountain tops were shrouded in thick mist all morning.”

shrouded is a state.

Where it comes from

From shroud, from Old English scrud, a garment or covering.

  1. Middle English

    schrouded

  2. English, today

    shrouded

From Middle English schrouded, equivalent to shroud + -ed.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

shrouded in the wild

  • Other terms include ducted propeller or shrouded propeller.

    Ducted fan

  • One of the figurines (pictured) made of ivory depicts a shrouded person.

    Venus of Buret'

  • A similar shrouded figurine has been found from Mal'ta.

    Venus of Buret'

  • Still, it was impossible now to think of finishing in time for the Salon that splendid terrible group half shrouded in the marble behind me.

    The King in Yellow· Robert W. Chambers

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

From Project Gutenberg, public domain. These sentences are from real books, shown to illustrate the word at work.

Related words

  • shroud