subterranean
- existing, situated, or operating below the surface of the earth; underground.
- existing or operating out of sight or secretly; hidden or secret.
- a person or thing that is subterranean.
- a subterrane.
Origin of subterranean
Related Words for subterranean
covert, hush-hush, private, secret, subversive, sunken, underfoot, buried, subterrestrialExamples from the Web for subterranean
Contemporary Examples of subterranean
Subterranean explorers puzzled over the mysterious red door that cut off access to underground tunnels leading to the bunker.
Edie Sedgwick, the subterranean princess, was undoubtedly interesting and fun.
Michael Jackson will lie in repose over no fewer than 13 subterranean floors, each holding intriguing secrets.
Each new group gets a subterranean ovation for being a part of this wonderful thing, for being a part of this New York niceness.
Historical Examples of subterranean
We are like men in a subterranean cave, so chained that they can look only forward to the entrance.
PhilotheaLydia Maria Child
The subterranean creep throws a fit and belts me with four fists.
Operation EarthwormJoe Archibald
Only in places was the subterranean river shallow and easy to wade.
Out of the DepthsRobert Ames Bennet
Humboldt says that they were cast up from subterranean sources.
The Book of the DamnedCharles Fort
Purdy did not hit for the subterranean hang-out of the gang.
Prairie FlowersJames B. Hendryx
subterranean
- Also: subterraneous, subterrestrial situated, living, or operating below the surface of the earth
- existing or operating in concealment