Antonyms for under the table
| Grammar : Adj, adv |
| Spell : uhn-der-th uh-tey-buh l |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈʌn dər ðəˈteɪ bəl |
- aboveboard
- allowable
- allowed
- authorized
- blessed
- candid
- clear
- defined
- ethical
- explicit
- forthright
- frank
- good
- honest
- justifiable
- known
- lawful
- legal
- legitimate
- moral
- official
- open
- openly
- overt
- permissible
- permitted
- public
- publicly
- reasonable
- revealed
- right
- sober
- straight
- told
- truthful
- unconcealed
- warranted
Definition of under the table
Origin :- in parliamentary sense, 1718, originally "to lay on the (speaker's) table for discussion," from table (n.). But in U.S. political jargon it has chiefly the sense of "to postpone indefinitely" (1866). Related: Tabled; tabling.
- As in plastered : adj drunk
- As in secret : adj underhand, clandestine
- As in soused : adj drunk
- As in surreptitious : adj sneaky, secret
- As in unauthorized : adj not sanctioned, permitted
- As in zonked : adj drunk, intoxicated; stunned
- As in behind-the-scenes : adj secret
- As in blind drunk : adj very drunk
- As in under the influence : adj drunk or less than drunk
- As in looped : adj drunk
- As in outlawed : adj illegal
- As in pickled : adj drunk
- As in potted : adj drunk
- As in sloshed : adj drunk
- As in stewed : adj drunk
- As in stinko : adj drunk
- As in covert : adj clandestine, underhanded
- As in drunk : adj intoxicated by alcohol
- As in furtive : adj sneaky, secretive
- As in hush-hush : adj secret
- As in illegal : adj against the law
- As in secretly : adv in hidden manner
- As in under the counter : adv sold clandestinely
Synonyms for under the table
- actionable
- amazed
- artful
- astonished
- backdoor
- backstage
- backstairs
- banned
- bashed
- befuddled
- behind closed doors
- behind someone's back
- behind the curtain
- besotted
- black-market
- blitzed
- bombed
- bootleg
- boozed up
- buried
- buzzed
- by stealth
- calculating
- camouflaged
- cautious
- circumspect
- clandestine
- clandestinely
- classified
- cloaked
- close
- closet
- concealed
- confidential
- confidentially
- conspiratorial
- contraband
- covert
- covertly
- crafty
- crapulent
- crapulous
- creepy
- criminal
- crocked
- crooked
- cryptic
- cunning
- dark
- dazed
- dead drunk
- dead to the world
- dead-drunk
- dirty
- discreet
- disguised
- dissembled
- dissimulated
- drinking
- drunk
- drunk as a skunk
- drunken
- dumbfounded
- elusive
- evasive
- extralegal
- feeling good
- feeling no pain
- felonious
- flushed
- flying
- forbidden
- foxy
- fraudulent
- fried
- fuddled
- furtive
- furtively
- glazed
- gone
- groggy
- guileful
- half in the bag
- half-crocked
- half-seas over
- heavy
- hidden
- high
- high as a kite
- hole-and-corner
- hooched up
- hot
- hush-hush
- illegal
- illegitimate
- illicit
- illicitly
- in
- in a corner
- in ambush
- in camera
- in confidence
- in holes and corners
- in one's cups
- in secret
- in strict confidence
- in the background
- in the dark
- incog
- incognito
- inebriate
- inebriated
- inside
- insidious
- insidiously
- interdicted
- intimately
- intoxicated
- irregular
- juiced
- laced
- lawless
- liquored up
- lit
- loaded
- lush
- masked
- muddled
- no-no
- not approved
- not legal
- obscured
- obscurely
- off base
- on the QT
- on the quiet
- on the sly
- out of bounds
- out of line
- outlawed
- outside the law
- over the line
- personally
- pickled
- pirated
- pissed
- plastered
- polluted
- potted
- private
- privately
- privily
- privy
- prohibited
- proscribed
- prosecutable
- QT
- quietly
- racket
- restricted
- sauced
- scheming
- schnockered
- secret
- secretive
- seeing double
- shady
- shifty
- shrouded
- skulking
- slinking
- sloshed
- sly
- slyly
- smashed
- smuggled
- sneak
- sneaking
- sneaky
- sodden
- soused
- stealthily
- stealthy
- stewed
- stiff
- stoned
- sub rosa
- sub-rosa
- surreptitious
- surreptitiously
- taboo
- tanked
- three sheets to the wind
- thunderstruck
- tight
- tipsy
- top secret
- totaled
- tricky
- ulterior
- unacknowledged
- unapproved
- unauthorized
- unconstitutional
- under false pretense
- under the influence
- under the influence of intoxicating liquor
- under the table
- under wraps
- under-the-table
- undercover
- underhand
- underhanded
- underhandedly
- unjustified
- unlawful
- unlicensed
- unobserved
- unofficial
- unsanctioned
- unsuspected
- unwarrantable
- unwarranted
- veiled
- verboten
- violating
- wasted
- wildcat
- wily
- woozy
- wrongful
- zonked
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