classified

clas-si-fied · adjective

imported

Definitions

adjective

  1. 1.

    Officially designated as secret and available only to authorized persons.

  2. 2.

    (plural: classifieds) Small advertisements in a newspaper or magazine.

  3. 3.

    Past tense of *classify*: arranged or organized by categories.

  4. 4.

    Arranged in classes or categories.

Related words

Antonyms: open, public, unclassified
See also: classify, confidential, secret
Synonyms: categorized, confidential, restricted, secret

Etymology

From classify + -ed. Classify comes from French classifier, from Latin classis ("class") + -ficare ("to make").