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declassified

declassified

10 4.8
Made public after being secret or private
  • adjective
  • /ˌdiːˈklæsɪfaɪd/
  • Formal
: desclasificado
  • THIS DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENT DETAILING A GAS...

It's officially declassified as long as you believe it's declassified.

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Examples

  • He he, as we now know from D class, from since declassified documents, he often kind of sold a bunch of his own students out.

  • And so these declassified documents came out from the National Archives in which the the a general from the UNMAR.

  • It's officially declassified as long as you believe it's declassified.

  • Do you find fun just scrolling through old declassified documents?

  • This story was originally posted at the Declassified Adoptee in November 2011.

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  • And because the proud prophet war game, nuclear war game was declassified, Bracken could speak about it in a general manner.

  • A group of anthropologists from Dartmouth College has found Roman ruins in declassified Cold War footage.

  • But one thing I did think was interesting is the MLK records declassified JFKRFK, where was Jeffrey Epstein?

  • I GOT THE DECLASSIFIED BRIEFS FROM THE PHOENIX PROJECT AROUND HERE.

  • The government released a declassified document that revealed previously hidden information about the war.

Synonyms

unclassified
vsdeclassified
  • Formal
12 4.2

Not secret and available to the public

refers to a former secret status that has been officially removed
disclosed
vsdeclassified
5 3.6

Made known after being secret

is an official removal of confidential status that allows public access
unveiled
vsdeclassified
2 4.2

Shown to the public after being kept secret

describes the administrative act that ends confidentiality and frees access

Antonyms

classified
  • Formal
279 7.4

Kept secret and shown only to people with permission

How Secret

top secret
  • Formal
128 4.2
secret
∞ 2.0
confidential
180 5.3
restricted
149 3.9
declassified
  • Formal
10 4.8
unclassified
  • Formal
12 4.2
public
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

declassified positive

Morphology

declassified = declassify (transparent) = de + class + ify + ed

The adjective is a regular past-participial form of 'declassify' and directly means 'having been declassified'.

Etymology

Declassified comes from the parts de- (meaning 'remove') and classify, which comes from class (meaning 'group'). So to declassify a document is to take it out of a 'secret' group and make it available to the public.