Definition

1. Adjective:
   • With your identity concealed: Describes a state where a person's true name, status, or appearance is hidden or disguised to avoid recognition.
2. Adverb:
   • Without revealing one's identity: Describes the manner of doing something while keeping one's true identity a secret.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • The celebrity made an incognito visit to the small town. (The celebrity visited the small town with their identity concealed.)
  • He checked into the hotel under an incognito alias. (He used a false name to hide his identity at the hotel.)
• Adverb:
  • The author often travels incognito to gather material. (The author travels without revealing their identity to collect information.)
  • In Holland he lived incognito as a carpenter. (In Holland, he lived without revealing his identity, working as a carpenter.)

Advanced Usage

• To go incognito: To deliberately assume a disguised or anonymous identity.
  • The spy went incognito to infiltrate the organization.
• To remain incognito: To continue keeping one's true identity hidden.
  • She managed to remain incognito throughout the entire event.

Variants and Related Words

• Incognita (noun, feminine form): A woman whose identity is concealed.
  • The princess was an incognita during her journey.
• Incognito mode (noun phrase, computing): A private browsing setting in a web browser that does not save local data such as history and cookies. (Note: This is a modern, specialized compound term.)

Synonyms

• Anonymously: Without any name being known or acknowledged.
• Undercover: Involving secret work for investigation or espionage, often implying a more active deception.
• In disguise: With one's appearance altered to prevent recognition.

Related Phrases

• Under an assumed name: Using a false name.
  • He registered for the conference under an assumed name.
• In secret: Without others knowing.
  • The negotiations were conducted in secret.

Idioms

• To be incognito: To be in a state of hidden identity. This is a direct use of the word as an idiom.
  • For his own safety, the witness had to be incognito for several months.

Adjective

1. with your identity concealed

Adverb

1. without revealing one's identity
   • in Holland he lived incognito as a carpenter in the shipyards of the East India company