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declassified

declassified

1 4.8
Made public after being secret or private
  • adjective
  • /ˌdiːˈklæsɪfaɪd/
  • Formal
translation icon : 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
11 4.2

Not secret and available to the public

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

Made known after being secret

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

Shown to the public after being kept secret

describes the administrative act that ends confidentiality and frees access

Antonyms

classified
  • Formal
1 7.4

Kept secret and shown only to people with permission

How Secret

top secret
  • Formal
55 4.2
secret
2.0
confidential
205 5.3
restricted
18 3.9
declassified
  • Formal
1 4.8
unclassified
  • Formal
11 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.