Cloistered
adj, verb
adj, verb ·2 syllables ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 simple past and past participle of cloister form-of, participle, past
Adjective
- 1 Dwelling or raised in, or as if in, cloisters; solitary.
"Cloistered friars and vestal nuns."
- 2 Isolated, protected, hidden away for the sake of maintaining innocence.
"[…]“The Vegan” is a less cloistered book, with bigger, more universal themes."
- 3 Naive, lacking in worldliness.
- 4 Furnished with cloisters.
"both the Greeks and Romans […]had commonly two cloiſtered open Courts, one serving for the Womens ſide, and the other for the Men"
Adjective
- 1 providing privacy or seclusion wordnet
- 2 of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows wordnet
Example
More examples"Cloistered friars and vestal nuns."