🚪 Isolated groups 🌾 Stored in silo 🚪 To separate groups

siloed

6.8

Stored in a tall farm container to keep grain dry

adjective
/ˈsaɪloʊd/

Specialized

: almacenado en silo

The farmer stored the corn in a siloed container to protect it from pests and moisture.

Examples

And we would always have a siloed civilization just they're ready in case something was to happen to me.
After the harvest, the wheat was siloed to ensure its freshness until it could be sold.
To preserve the quality of the grain, it was carefully siloed in a large, airtight structure.

Antonyms

integrated

2 3.8

Having different parts that work together as one

shared

1 1.0

Used, held, or felt by more than one group of people

Surface Forms

siloed positive

Morphology

siloed = silo (transparent) = silo + ed

The word 'siloed' is transparently derived from 'silo' with the addition of the past participle suffix '-ed', indicating the state of being stored in a silo.

Etymology

Siloed comes from silo, the tall farm tower used to 'store' grain and keep it safe and dry, so being siloed in the literal sense meant to be 'kept' inside that storage.