secret keeper
Discretion personified, silent
A secret keeper is someone entrusted with confidential information—the friend who knows about your affair, the colleague who knows you're job hunting.
The term emphasizes the trust involved: a good secret keeper guards what they know, while a poor one becomes a liability.
She's my secret keeper—I tell her everything.
In the Harry Potter universe, a Secret Keeper is a person magically bound to protect hidden information, a usage that has colored the phrase for many readers.
- confidantTrusted keeper of secrets
- close friendIntimate, trusted companion
- inner circleExclusive group of confidants
- whisperSpeech without full voice
- trustConfidence in another
vault · diary · silence · sworn · pinky promise · hidden · loyal · guardian · hush · private · intimate · shadow · locked · buried · entrusted · discrete · oath · confession
- secrecyconfidential, classified, hidden, hiding, concealment
- childhood secretswhispering, pinky promise, coded messages, clubhouse, password
- Secret Identitiesalias, alter ego, assumed name, pseudonym, false name
- spy thrillerspies, espionage, double agents, covert ops, undercover
- mysterious figuresenigma, phantom, shadowy figure, mysterious stranger, mystery man
- hidersfugitive, runaway, stowaway, escapee, hermit
secret keepergossip
Informal talk spreading rumors
blabbermouth · tattletale · snitch · informer · loose lips
secret keeperrumormonger
One who spreads unverified talk
leaker · whistleblower · informant · broadcaster · exposer
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