1.
[syn: classified ad, classified advertisement, classified]
ADJECTIVE (2)
1. arranged into classes;
2. official classification of information or documents; withheld from general circulation;
- Example: "thousands of classified documents have now been declassified"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Classify \Clas"si*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Classified; p. pr.
& vb. n. Classifying.] [L. classis class + -fy.]
To distribute into classes; to arrange according to a system;
to arrange in sets according to some method founded on common
properties or characters.
Syn: To arrange; distribute; rank.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
classified \classified\ adj.
1. arranged into classes or categories; as, unclassified.
Syn: categorized.
[WordNet 1.5 +PJC]
2. assigned to a class of documents withheld from general
circulation; -- of information or documents. Opposite of
unclassified.
Note: [Narrower terms: eyes-only; confidential;
restricted; secret; sensitive; top-secret]
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
classified
adj 1: arranged into classes [ant: unclassified]
2: official classification of information or documents; withheld
from general circulation; "thousands of classified documents
have now been declassified" [ant: unclassified]
n 1: a short ad in a newspaper or magazine (usually in small
print) and appearing along with other ads of the same type
[syn: classified ad, classified advertisement,
classified]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
76 Moby Thesaurus words for "classified":
aligned, arcane, arranged, arrayed, assorted, cabalistic,
cataloged, categorized, censored, close, closed, composed,
concealed, constituted, cryptic, dark, disposed, enigmatic,
esoteric, filed, fixed, graded, grouped, harmonized, hermetic,
hidden, hierarchic, hush-hush, indexed, latent, marshaled,
methodized, mysterious, normalized, occult, on file, ordered,
orderly, organized, pigeonholed, placed, pyramidal, ranged, ranked,
rated, regularized, regulated, restricted, routinized, secret,
smothered, sorted, standardized, stifled, stratified, suppressed,
synchronized, systematized, tabular, top secret, ulterior,
unbreatheable, under security, under wraps, undisclosable,
undisclosed, undivulgable, undivulged, unrevealable, unrevealed,
unspoken, untellable, untold, unutterable, unuttered,
unwhisperable