The word for today is…
discreet (adjective) -
1: having or showing discernment or good judgment in conduct and especially in speech : prudent, especially : cautious and restrained (as in revealing information)
2: unobtrusive, unnoticeable
3: unpretentious, modest
Source : Merriam-Webster
Etymology : If you’ve ever mixed up discreet and discrete, you’re not alone. Which to use when writing is tricky to discern, given their identical pronunciation and shared etymology; both terms (and their relatives discern and certain) ultimately trace back to the Latin verb cernere, meaning “to sift, discern, decide, determine.” Yet despite these similarities, the words have separate—one might even say discrete—meanings. Something or someone described as discreet, with double e's, is unlikely to be known, seen, or noticed by many people (as in “found a discreet way to handle the problem”). Discrete, with its separate e's, describes things that are separate and different from each other (as in “a process broken down into a number of discrete steps”). A handy mnemonic for remembering which is which can be found in those e's: the t in discrete separates the two e’s.
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