closed
- adjective
- /kloʊzd/
- The store had a closed sign in the window, indicating it would not reopen until morning.
- a closed door
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- 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
Closed and covered to stop water or air getting in
Curtains or shades closed to block light and view
Still closed and in its original package
Kept closed so it does not open or move
A room or building with its windows closed by covers
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 company that sells a set number of shares that trade on the stock market
- 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 curve with no endpoints that comes back to its starting point, like a circle
- Specialized
A system that recovers, cleans, and reuses materials to avoid waste
- Specialized
A control system that uses information from sensors to adjust itself automatically
- Specialized
A sudden eye condition when the colored part blocks fluid leaving the front of the eye, raising eye pressure quickly
- 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
A curved line on a flat surface that makes a closed loop without crossing itself, like a circle
A plant with blue or purple flowers shaped like a tube that stay mostly closed
- Specialized
A word from a small fixed set that helps show grammar, like in or and
- Specialized
Heart surgery done through a small cut without opening the chest
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.