closed
- adjective
- /kloʊzd/
- The store had a closed sign in the window, indicating it would not reopen until morning.
- a closed door
See it first with your eyes closed in your mind.
- See it first with your eyes closed in your mind.
- So I needed to get like closed boot style slippers.
- And we have these curtains to pull closed under the pergola.
- But they were closed so less people would die.
- What I would say to people is Pandora's box is closed right now.
- But they just said, sorry, flight's closed, can't do anything about it.
Examples
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Later, I asked my mother what was behind that closed door on the landing.
Fiction book (2000) -
"Nervous?" he asked as they paused at the closed door.
Fiction book (1991) -
At the top, I looked around and saw the closed door.
Fiction book (2001) -
Despite the CLOSED sign, a light's on inside.
Fiction book (1992) -
I gradually became aware of raised voices behind the closed door on the far side of the room.
Fiction book (1991) -
Then she gave him a radiant smile, and then he was on the other side of the closed door.
Fiction book (2002) -
A big block-lettered sign in the window of the shop read, CLOSED.
Fiction book (1992) -
Behind that closed door lies his mother's sewing room.
Fiction book (1998) -
The shopkeeper appears at the glass, locking the door and flipping the sign: CLOSED.
Fiction book (1994) -
I could see the wide burnished staircase and the closed door to one of the hospitality suites.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
Not open, for example a door or your eyes
Still closed and in its original package
Curtains or shades closed to block light and view
A room or building with its windows closed by covers
Kept closed so it does not open or move
Closed and covered to stop water or air getting in
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
To do something easily without thinking because you trust or know it well
Compounds
A system of cameras and monitors that records and shows images for security, not for public broadcast
An election to choose a party candidate in which only registered members of the party can vote
- Specialized
A system that uses feedback to keep things like temperature at the right level
- Specialized
A model of the universe whose space curves and contains enough matter to stop and reverse its expansion
- Specialized
A company that sells a set number of shares that trade on the stock market
- Specialized
A curve with no endpoints that comes back to its starting point, like a circle
A plant with blue or purple flowers shaped like a tube that stay mostly closed
- Specialized
A sudden eye condition when the colored part blocks fluid leaving the front of the eye, raising eye pressure quickly
- Specialized
A word from a small fixed set that helps show grammar, like in or and
- Specialized
A company that issues a fixed number of shares which are traded on a stock market
- Specialized
A company whose shares are owned by a small group and not sold to the public
- Specialized
Heart surgery done through a small cut without opening the chest
- Specialized
A control system that uses information from sensors to adjust itself automatically
- Specialized
A system that recovers, cleans, and reuses materials to avoid waste
- Specialized
A curved line on a flat surface that makes a closed loop without crossing itself, like a circle
How Closed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Closed comes from the old Latin word claudere meaning 'to shut'. Think of a door shut tight; that's why closed means 'not open' and you cannot go in or see through.