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cloistered
 [kloi-sterd] 
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | secluded |
| Synonyms: | cloistral, confined, hermitic, hidden, insulated, recluse, reclusive, restricted, secluse, seclusive, sequestered, sheltered, shielded, shut off, withdrawn |
| Antonyms: | free, open, unsecluded |
| Main Entry: | seclude |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | isolate, hide |
| Synonyms: | blockade, boycott, cloister, closet, conceal, confine, cover, embargo, enclose, evict, immure, ostracize, quarantine, retire, screen, segregate, separate, sequester, shut off, withdraw |
| Antonyms: | join, mingle, socialize |
| Main Entry: | secluded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | isolated, sheltered |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, alone, aloof, beleaguered, blockaded, cloistered, close, closet, confidential, covert, cut off, deserted, hermetic, hidden, incommunicado, insular, isolate, lonely, lonesome, off the beaten track, out-of-the-way, personal, private, quarantined, quiet, reclusive, remote, removed, reserved, retired, screened, secluse, seclusive, secret, segregated, sequestered, shut off, shy, singular, solitary, tucked away, unapproachable, unfrequented, uninhabited, unsociable, withdrawn |
| Antonyms: | joining, mingling, open, public, sociable, socializing |
Example Sentences
- Remaining cloistered and unaware was an intellectual advantage.
- On one wall, monks fight with feet and clenched fists in a cloistered garden.
- Cathy rebels against this cloistered existence and runs off to work in a house of ill repute.
| Main Entry: | sequester |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | isolate, seclude |
| Synonyms: | cloister, close off, cut off, draw back, enisle, hide, insulate, island, secrete, segregate, separate, set apart, set off, withdraw |
| Antonyms: | bring out, make public, reveal, uncover |
| Main Entry: | solitary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alone, single; unsociable |
| Synonyms: | aloof, antisocial, cloistered, companionless, deserted, desolate, distant, eremetic, forsaken, friendless, hermitical, hidden, individual, introverted, isolated, lone, lonely, lonesome, lorn, misanthropic, offish, only, out-of-the-way, particular, reclusive, remote, reserved, retired, secluded, separate, sequestered, singular, sole, solo, stag, standoffish, unaccompanied, unapproachable, unattended, uncompanionable, unfrequented, unique, unsocial, withdrawn |
| Antonyms: | accompanied, combined, sociable, together |
| Main Entry: | withdrawn |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hidden, remote |
| Synonyms: | cloistered, departed, isolated, out-of-the-way, private, recluse, removed, retreated, secluded, solitary, taken out |
| Antonyms: | known, seen, visible |
| Main Entry: | reclusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unsociable |
| Synonyms: | antisocial, ascetic, cloistered, eremitic, hermetic, hermit-like, isolated, misanthropic, monastic, recluse, reserved, retiring, secluded, secluse, seclusive, sequestered, solitary, standoffish, withdrawn |
| Antonyms: | gregarious, sociable |
| Main Entry: | immure |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | confine |
| Synonyms: | cloister, coop, entomb, imprison, incarcerate, jail, seclude, wall |
| Main Entry: | retired |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | done working |
| Synonyms: | cidevant, cloistered, discharged, emeritus, humble, immured, inactive, otiose, retiring, secluded, sequestered, shy, superannuated, unfrequented, withdrawn |
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