Synonyms of the word

private

• adj. Belonging to, concerning, or accessible only to an individual person or a specific group.
• adj. Not accessible by the public.
• adj. Not in governmental office or employment.
• adj. Not publicly known; not open; secret.
• adj. Protected from view or disturbance by others; secluded.
• adj. Not traded by the public.
• adj. Secretive; reserved.
• adj. (US, of a room in a medical facility) Not shared with another patient.
• n. The lowest rank of the army.
• n. A soldier of the rank of private.
• n. (in plural privates) A euphemistic term for the genitals.
• n. (obsolete) A secret message; a personal unofficial communication.
• n. (obsolete) Personal interest; particular business.
• n. (obsolete) Privacy; retirement.
• n. (obsolete) One not invested with a public office.
• n. (usually in the plural) A private lesson.

backstage

• adj. Relating to, or situated in the area behind a stage.
• adj. Secret, concealed from the public.
• adv. Towards the area behind the stage.
• adv. Out of view of the public.
• n. The area behind a stage out of view of the audience where performers wait to give their show; especially…
• n. The private portion of the space used by a business or enterprise.

clannish

• adj. Of or related to a clan.
• adj. Socially exclusive.

cliquish

• adj. of or pertaining to a clique.
• adj. tending to associate with a small and exclusive group.

cloistered

• adj. Dwelling or raised in, or as if in, cloisters; solitary.
• adj. isolated, protected, hidden away for the sake of maintaining innocence.
• adj. naive, lacking in worldliness.
• adj. Furnished with cloisters.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of cloister.

close

• v. (physical) To remove a gap.
• v. (social) To finish, to terminate.
• v. To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.
• v. (surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
• n. An end or conclusion.
• n. The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
• n. A grapple in wrestling.
• n. (music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
• n. (music) A double bar marking the end.
• adj. (now rare) Closed, shut.
• adj. Narrow; confined.
• adj. At a little distance; near.
• adj. Intimate; well-loved.
• adj. Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
• adj. (Ireland, England, Scotland, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind.
• adj. (linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
• adj. Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
• adj. (obsolete) Out of the way of observation; secluded; secret; hidden.
• adj. Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
• adj. Short.
• adj. (archaic) Dense; solid; compact.
• adj. (archaic) Concise; to the point.
• adj. (dated) Difficult to obtain.
• adj. (dated) Parsimonious; stingy.
• adj. Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
• adj. Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.
• adj. Marked, evident.
• n. (now rare) An enclosed field.
• n. (Britain) A street that ends in a dead end.
• n. (Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the…
• n. (Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
• n. A cathedral close.
• n. (law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed.

clubby

• adj. Resembling or suggestive of a social club or clubhouse: congenial and exclusive.
• adj. (informal) Fond of frequenting nightclubs.

confidential

• adj. Kept, or meant to be kept, secret within a certain circle of persons; not intended to be known publicly.
• adj. (dated) Inclined to share confidences.

esoteric

• adj. intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge…
• adj. Having to do with concepts that are highly theoretical and without obvious practical application; often…
• adj. Confidential; private.
• n. An esoteric doctrine or treatise; esoteric philosophy.
• n. One who believes, or is an initiate, in esoteric doctrines or rites.

head-to-head

• adj. Direct, one-to-one.
• adv. Facing one another.
• adv. Directly, one-to-one.

individual

• n. A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
• n. (law) A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.
• n. An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.
• n. (statistics) An element belonging to a population.
• adj. Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.
• adj. Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.

insular

• adj. Of, pertaining to, being, or resembling an island or islands.
• adj. Situated on an island.
• adj. Separate or isolated from the surroundings; having little interaction with external parties; provincial.
• adj. Having an inward-looking, standoffish, or withdrawn manner.
• adj. Relating to the insula in the brain.
• n. An islander.

inward

• adj. Situated on the inside; that is within, inner; belonging to the inside.
• adj. (obsolete) Intimate, closely acquainted; familiar.
• adv. Towards the inside.
• n. (obsolete, chiefly in the plural) That which is inward or within; the inner parts or organs of the body;…
• n. (obsolete, chiefly in the plural) The mental faculties.
• n. (obsolete) A familiar friend or acquaintance.

nonpublic

• adj. not public; private.

offstage

• adj. Of, or relating to that part of a stage not visible to the audience.
• adj. Of, or relating to the private life of a celebrity.
• adv. Taking place offstage (as above).

one-on-one

• adj. (chiefly Canada, US) Involving direct communication between two people.
• adj. (sports) involving one attacker and one defender.
• adj. (mathematics) bijective or injective.
• n. A contest involving only one player on each side, especially of an activity often involving teams.

personal

• adj. Pertaining to human beings as distinct from things.
• adj. Of or pertaining to a particular person; relating to, or affecting, an individual, or each of many individuals;…
• adj. Pertaining to the external or bodily appearance; corporeal.
• adj. Done in person; without the intervention of another.
• adj. Relating to an individual, their character, conduct, motives, or private affairs, in an invidious and…
• adj. (grammar) Denoting a person.
• n. An advertisement by which individuals attempt to meet others with similar interests.
• n. A movable; a chattel.

privy

• adj. (now chiefly historical) Private, exclusive; not public; one's own.
• adj. (now rare, archaic) Secret, hidden, concealed.
• adj. With knowledge of; party to; let in on.
• n. An outdoor facility for urination and defecation, whether open (latrine) or enclosed (outhouse).
• n. A lavatory: a room with a toilet.
• n. A toilet: a fixture used for urination and defecation.
• n. (law) A partaker; one having an interest in an action, contract, etc. to which he is not himself a party.

reclusive

• adj. Of, characterized by, or preferring privacy and isolation; secluded.

secluded

• adj. Hidden, isolated, remote.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of seclude.

secret

• n. (countable, uncountable) Knowledge that is hidden and intended to be kept hidden.
• n. (uncountable) Something not understood or known.
• n. (archaic, in the plural) The genital organs.
• adj. Being or kept hidden.
• adj. (obsolete) Withdrawn from general intercourse or notice; in retirement or secrecy; secluded.
• adj. (obsolete) Faithful to a secret; not inclined to divulge or betray confidence; secretive.
• adj. (obsolete) Separate; distinct.
• v. (transitive) To make or keep secret.
• v. (transitive) To hide secretly.

semiprivate

• adj. More private than usual accommodations, but not fully private; used especially of a hospital room that…

sequestered

• v. simple past tense and past participle of sequester.
• adj. Something that has already been separated.

snobbish

• adj. Having the property of being a snob; arrogant and pretentious; smugly superior or dismissive of perceived…

snobby

• adj. Characteristic of a snob.

tete-a-tete

• n. Alternative spelling of tête-à-tête.

toffee-nosed

• adj. (chiefly Britain) snobbish, condescending or aloof.