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closed

4.1
Not willing to accept new ideas or opinions
  • adjective
  • /kloʊzd/
translation icon : cerrado de mente
  • 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.

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Examples

  • The fear and anger engendered by that kind of relativism can evoke both stubborn closed mindedness and despair.

  • We shouldn't just withdraw into old friendships and be closed off to the potentials of new friendships.

  • And they are really closed off to new information.

  • I'm not sort of closed off from that anymore.

  • You know, you're closed more than you are open.

  • So you're either validation seeking or you are closed and judgmental.

  • He is often closed to feedback, insisting that his approach is the best way to solve the problem.

  • Many people are closed to suggestions for improvement when they feel confident in their current methods.

Synonyms

narrow-minded
vsclosed
25 5.1

Not willing to accept ideas or ways different from their own

focuses on not accepting ideas without intolerance emphasis
close-minded
vsclosed
11 5.5

Not willing to think about new ideas or other people's views

describes unwillingness without focusing on rigidity
closed-minded
vsclosed
9 5.2

Not willing to accept new ideas or different opinions

is the basic idea of not accepting new ideas
unsympathetic
vsclosed
5 6.3

Not willing to accept new ideas or change

is about refusing new viewpoints rather than showing feeling
unreceptive
vsclosed
1 6.3

Not willing to listen to or accept new ideas

is a broader state of not accepting different viewpoints

Antonyms

80 3.7

Ready to listen to new ideas and accept different views

52 4.1

Willing to listen to and accept new ideas

Idioms

behind closed doors
  • Literature
112 4.1

In private and not open to the public

To keep quiet to avoid saying something silly

with eyes closed
  • Informal
4.9

To do something easily without thinking because you trust or know it well

Compounds

19 5.3

Not open to the public and held privately by a small group

15 4.2

A private meeting or place that people keep secret

14 4.1

A space surrounded on all sides and not open to the outside

8 5.5

A part of a meeting that is not open to the public

closed-circuit
  • Specialized
5 5.3

A system that keeps video or sound inside a private network

4 6.4

A workplace that only hires people who belong to a union

A system of cameras and monitors that records and shows images for security, not for public broadcast

2 7.2

An election to choose a party candidate in which only registered members of the party can vote

closed circuit
  • Specialized
2 4.3

A complete path that lets electricity or signals flow

closed loop
  • Specialized
1 5.1

A system that uses feedback to keep things like temperature at the right level

Includes captions that viewers can turn on to read the dialogue

closed book
  • Informal
1 7.4

Something that is hard to understand or know much about

closed fracture
  • Specialized
1 4.1

A broken bone that does not break the skin

closed universe
  • Specialized
1 9.9

A model of the universe whose space curves and contains enough matter to stop and reverse its expansion

closed-end fund
  • Specialized
1 7.2

A company that sells a set number of shares that trade on the stock market

closed curve
  • Specialized
6.5

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

closed interval
  • Specialized
7.3

All numbers from one number to another including both ends

closed syllable
  • Specialized
6.0

A syllable that ends with a consonant and has a short vowel sound

closed-angle glaucoma
  • Specialized
6.7

A sudden eye condition when the colored part blocks fluid leaving the front of the eye, raising eye pressure quickly

closed-class word
  • Specialized
8.3

A word from a small fixed set that helps show grammar, like in or and

A company that issues a fixed number of shares which are traded on a stock market

closed chain
  • Specialized
6.9

A ring of atoms joined in a molecule to form a loop

closed corporation
  • Specialized
7.0

A company whose shares are owned by a small group and not sold to the public

closed couplet
  • Literature
7.9

Two lines of poetry that rhyme and give a complete thought

closed-heart surgery
  • Specialized
6.1

Heart surgery done through a small cut without opening the chest

closed-loop system
  • Specialized
6.0

A control system that uses information from sensors to adjust itself automatically

closed-loop system
  • Specialized
5.2

A system that recovers, cleans, and reuses materials to avoid waste

closed-ring
  • Specialized
7.7

Having atoms joined together to form a ring

simple closed curve
  • Specialized
7.9

A curved line on a flat surface that makes a closed loop without crossing itself, like a circle

How Receptive

open-minded
80 3.7
receptive
52 4.1
closed
4.1
reserved
3.7

Surface Forms

closed positive

Morphology

closed = close (semi-transparent) = close + ed

The adjectival meaning 'not willing to consider new ideas' is metaphorically derived from 'not open', so learners may partly infer the meaning but it requires pragmatic extension.

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.