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🪟 Set back space 👁️ Sunken below surface
recessed

recessed

1 5.6
Set back into a wall to make a small shelf or seat
  • adjective
  • /rɪˈsɛst/
translation icon : recesado
  • The living room featured recessed lighting that gave the space a modern feel.
  • recessed light

OK, So the recessed court and we went back back backstage, not backstage, back to a court, a room on the side to go and watch this video.

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Examples

  • The ceilings were high, with recessed, indirect lighting that had to have been designed by a specialist in the craft.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • The recessed lighting I had installed under the kitchen cabinets burned dimly as I sat down at the kitchen counter and toasted myself, "To Partner Layton," I said, raising the glass.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • The artist created a beautiful display with shelves in recessed alcoves along the wall.

  • In the newly designed kitchen, the recessed cabinets provided a sleek, minimalist look.

Synonyms

deep-set
vsrecessed
4 4.5

Eyes or parts of the face that are set far back and look sunken

is used for spaces or parts set back into a surface like an alcove

Antonyms

protruding
4.2

Sticking out from a surface like a nail or branch

projecting
4.2

Sticks out from a surface or edge

How Recessed

sunken
3 4.6
recessed
1 5.6
flush
3 6.5

Surface Forms

recessed positive

Morphology

recessed = recess (transparent) = recess + ed

Formed as the past-participle/adjectival '-ed' of the verb 'recess', so the meaning 'set back/indented' is directly derived.

Etymology

Recessed comes from the Latin parts re- meaning 'back' and cedere meaning 'to go', the same idea you see in the word recede. So a recessed space is one that 'goes back' into a wall, like a small hidden nook.