About The Word Cloistered
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Cloistered
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What's The Definition Of Cloistered?
[adj] providing privacy or seclusion; "the cloistered academic world of books"; "sat close together in the sequestered pergola"; "sitting under the reclusive calm of a shade tree"; "a secluded romantic spot"
[adj] of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows Synonyms | Synonyms for Cloistered: cloistral | conventual | monastic | monastical | private | reclusive | secluded | sequestered | unworldly Related Terms | Find terms related to Cloistered: anchoritic | at rest | barred | beleaguered | beset | besieged | blockaded | bound | cabined | caged | calm | claustral | closed-in | confined | conventical | conventual | cool | cooped | cordoned | cordoned off | corralled | cramped | cribbed | detained | domestic | dwindling | ebbing | enclosed | eremitic | even-tenored | fenced | halcyon | hedged | hemmed | hermitic | hermitish | hushed | immured | impassive | impounded | imprisoned | in confinement | incarcerated | isolated | jailed | kept in | leaguered | mewed | moldering | monachal | monasterial | monastic | pacific | paled | peaceable | peaceful | penned | pent | pent-up | placid | quarantined | quiescent | quiet | railed | recluse | reposeful | reposing | restful | resting | restrained | restricted | secluded | sequestered | sequestrated | sheltered | shut in | shut up | shut-in | smooth | stay-at-home | still | still as death | stillish | stilly | stoic | stolid | subsiding | tranquil | unagitated | under restraint | undisturbed | unmoved | unperturbed | unruffled | unstirring | untroubled | walled | walled-in | waning See Also | Cloistered In Webster's Dictionary \Clois"tered\, a.
1. Dwelling in cloisters; solitary. ``Cloistered friars and
vestal nuns.'' --Hudibras.
In cloistered state let selfish sages dwell, Proud
that their heart is narrow as their cell.
--Shenstone.
2. Furnished with cloisters. --Sir H. Wotton.
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