Synonyms for privy
ˈprɪv iprivy

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1. privy

   Synonyms:
   secret, clandestine, cognizant, acquainted with

   Antonyms:
   open, unsealed, not acquainted with, not cognizant of

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1. toilet, lavatory, lav, can, john, privy, bathroomnoun

   a room or building equipped with one or more toilets

   Synonyms:
   fanny, tail, can buoy, prat, butt, flush toilet, bathroom, washbasin, tin, tin can, can, nates, bottom, toilette, earth-closet, potty, fundament, outhouse, crapper, posterior, washstand, washbowl, behind, whoremaster, stern, commode, backside, bum, john, whoremonger, buns, stool, hindquarters, tail end, derriere, basin, throne, rear end, trick, hind end, rump, buttocks, toilet, bath, keister, lavatory, sewer, ass, gutter, arse, lav, rear, tush, jakes, canful, seat, pot, tooshie

   Antonyms:
   public, uninformed

2. outhouse, privy, earth-closet, jakesadjective

   a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate

   Synonyms:
   earth-closet, lavatory, toilet, outhouse, can, lav, jakes, john, bathroom

   Antonyms:
   uninformed, public

3. privy, secluded, secretadjective

   hidden from general view or use

   "a privy place to rest and think"; "a secluded romantic spot"; "a secret garden"

   Synonyms:
   hole-and-corner(a), occult, sequestered, underground, orphic, privy(p), surreptitious, private, undercover, hugger-mugger, hush-hush, mysterious, secret, hidden, reclusive, clandestine, secluded, cloak-and-dagger, mystic, unavowed, cloistered, confidential, mystical

   Antonyms:
   uninformed, public

4. privy(p)adjective

   (followed by `to') informed about something secret or not generally known

   "privy to the details of the conspiracy"

   Antonyms:
   uninformed, public

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1. privyadjective

   Synonyms:
   individual, special, private, personal, peculiar, particular

2. privyadjective

   Synonyms:
   secret, clandestine

3. privyadjective

   Synonyms:
   cognizant of, acquainted with

4. privynoun

   Synonyms:
   necessary, back-house, jakes, water-closet

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1. privynoun

   Synonyms:
   water-closet, backhouse, jakes

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1. List of paraphrases for "privy":

   private, privé, deprived

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How to use privy in a sentence?

1. Edwin Budge:

   The coroner was not privy to all the information.

2. Francis Beaumont:

   All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a man ought either to say all, or conceal all; for, how little so ever you have revealed of your secret to a friend, you have already said too much if you think it not safe to make him privy to all particulars.

3. Telecommunications Industry Association:

   While CTIA is not privy to the specifics of any request, wireless carriers are compelled to comply with valid subpoenas and do so every day.

4. Mike Pompeo:

   I was incredibly surprised to learn there were components of the deal that Congress was not going to be privy to.

5. Jack Falahee:

   There has been a conversation about it, i'm not privy to all of the discussion that happens in the writers' room, but I do know early on the topic of safer sex has been brought up.