veiledEnglishOxford American Thesaurusveiled adjective they backed up their demands with veiled threats: covert, surreptitious, hidden, concealed, disguised, camouflaged, masked, suppressed, underlying, unrevealed, implied, indirect, hinted at; ill-defined, indistinct, vague, obscure, unclear. ▷antonyms overt, blatant.word toolkitveiledSee invisible.