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sequestered

sequestered

7.4
Kept away from other people in a quiet private place
  • adjective
  • /sɪˈkwɛstərd/
translation icon : aislado
  • During her retreat, she enjoyed the peace of her sequestered cabin in the woods.

And the boys were sequestered here safely at our sacred home at Jai House.

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Examples

  • We had some neighbors as well, and we're kind of sequestered out in our own little private neighborhood.

  • I haven't spent any close time with another person outside my mom or my wife who I'm sequestered with in six weeks.

  • What was the trip that you took where you sequestered yourself before the plague?

  • How about committing beyond the sequestered time frame?

  • But they, you know, thank, thank goodness they're all sequestered in one state.

  • Then this is not the isolated, cloistered and sequestered figure of tradition.

  • I was a very protected, sequestered kind of young woman in a bubble that my mom was just paroling the outside of.

  • And the boys were sequestered here safely at our sacred home at Jai House.

  • This was the days when we were sequestered into our own wards, bodies disposed in plastic bags.

  • OK picture of Bert if he were like, if he like, sequestered himself in a shack in a forest for like, years as a hermit.

Synonyms

isolated
vssequestered
56 3.8

Far from other places or people and hard to reach

is more about chosen privacy and quiet rather than simple remoteness
cooped up
vssequestered
  • Informal
28 5.5

Being kept in a small space makes you restless and unhappy

is about calm private quietness rather than forced unpleasant restriction
cloistered
vssequestered
3 8.7

Living apart from other people and the outside world, often in a quiet place

is used more widely for quiet private separation outside institutional life
shut-in
vssequestered
1 8.4

Staying mostly at home because of illness, injury, or not wanting to go out

is broader, meaning private quiet withdrawal not always caused by illness or inability
quarantined
vssequestered
4.8

Kept apart from others to stop an illness spreading

is about private quiet separation not necessarily enforced for health reasons
confined
vssequestered
3.7

Kept in one small space and unable to leave

is about chosen privacy and quiet rather than mere physical restriction

Antonyms

1.0

Open or available to everyone, not private

1 3.4

Not protected from danger or bad weather

How Secluded

isolated
56 3.8
sequestered
7.4
secluded
35 5.1
private
1.8

Surface Forms

sequestered positive

Morphology

sequestered = sequester (transparent) = sequester + ed

The adjective 'sequestered' is transparently formed from the verb 'sequester' by adding the past participle suffix '-ed', indicating a state of being isolated.

Etymology

Sequestered comes from the idea of being 'set aside' or kept apart, like when someone is placed in a quiet room away from others. So a sequestered place is private, quiet, and separate from activity.