Camouflaged

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Made to blend into the surroundings to avoid detection
2. Altered in appearance or form to be less noticeable or to merge with the background
3. Concealed by altering the look to mimic nearby environment, reducing visibility

Etymology: The word "camouflaged" is simply the past tense and past participle of "camouflage", so it carries the same history: the verb came into English from French, and its ancestry runs back through Italian to a Medieval Latin word for a soft muff. The Italian verb "camuffare" meant "to muffle the head", built from "capo" (head) and "muffare" (to muffle). Those muffle roots go back to a Frankish word for a soft garment made of hide, and the same root gave English "muffle" as well. The French verb "camoufler" meant "to veil, disguise", but its spelling and sense were reshaped under the influence of "camouflet", a word for smoke blown into someone's face. The result is a term that started as the idea of wrapping up a head and ended up meaning concealment through disguise.

Synonyms: concealed, disguised, hidden

Antonyms: revealed, exposed