closed
- adjective
- /kloʊzd/
- During the discussion, she remained closed to alternative viewpoints and refused to consider other ideas.
So you're either validation seeking or you are closed and judgmental.
- So you're either validation seeking or you are closed and judgmental.
- And they are really closed off to new information.
- I'm not sort of closed off from that anymore.
- We shouldn't just withdraw into old friendships and be closed off to the potentials of new friendships.
- Being a gatekeeper means feeling cut off, cynical and to be prepared for people to call you out as closed off, unkind and untrusting.
Examples
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The fear and anger engendered by that kind of relativism can evoke both stubborn closed mindedness and despair.
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We shouldn't just withdraw into old friendships and be closed off to the potentials of new friendships.
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And they are really closed off to new information.
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I'm not sort of closed off from that anymore.
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You know, you're closed more than you are open.
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So you're either validation seeking or you are closed and judgmental.
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He is often closed to feedback, insisting that his approach is the best way to solve the problem.
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Many people are closed to suggestions for improvement when they feel confident in their current methods.
Synonyms
Not willing to accept ideas or ways different from their own
Not willing to think about new ideas or other people's views
Not willing to accept new ideas or different opinions
Not willing to accept new ideas or change
Not willing to listen to or accept new ideas
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
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A model of the universe whose space curves and contains enough matter to stop and reverse its expansion
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A company that sells a set number of shares that trade on the stock market
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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
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A sudden eye condition when the colored part blocks fluid leaving the front of the eye, raising eye pressure quickly
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A word from a small fixed set that helps show grammar, like in or and
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A company that issues a fixed number of shares which are traded on a stock market
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A company whose shares are owned by a small group and not sold to the public
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Heart surgery done through a small cut without opening the chest
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A control system that uses information from sensors to adjust itself automatically
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A system that recovers, cleans, and reuses materials to avoid waste
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A curved line on a flat surface that makes a closed loop without crossing itself, like a circle
How Receptive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
A helpful way to remember closed for a mind is to think of it as 'shut' to new ideas; it comes from claudere 'to shut', so a closed person does not accept other views.