cloistered

C2
US /ˈklɔɪstɝd/
adj verb Freq #47878

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    providing privacy or seclusion

    the cloistered academic world of books

  2. 2
    adj

    Dwelling or raised in, or as if in, cloisters; solitary.

    Cloistered friars and vestal nuns.

  3. 3
    adj

    Isolated, protected, hidden away for the sake of maintaining innocence.

    […]“The Vegan” is a less cloistered book, with bigger, more universal themes.

  4. 4
    adj

    Furnished with cloisters.

    both the Greeks and Romans […]had commonly two cloiſtered open Courts, one serving for the Womens ſide, and the other for the Men

  5. 5
    adj

    of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows

  6. 6
    adj

    Naive, lacking in worldliness.

  7. 7
    verb

    simple past and past participle of cloister

Thesaurus

Synonyms
1 adj · providing privacy or seclusion sequestered
5 adj · of communal life... cloistralconventualmonasticmonastical

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