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/ˈklɒzɪt/ · noun
A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies..
A Closet full of shelves... it... should therefore be called a Cupboard rather than a Closet.
She came in now, but to the closet; from it she took a simple skirt and blouse. Picking up her underclothing she departed, obviously to dress somewhere else.
A slepe hym toke / In hys closet.
VVhen come to the place vvhere vve all vvere to dine, / (A chair-lumber'd Cloſet, juſt tvvelve feet by nine) / My friend bid me vvelcome, but ſtruck me quite dumb / VVith tidings that Johnson and Burke coud not come: […]
Chaplayneȝ to þe chapeles chosen þe gate... / Þe lorde loutes þerto, & þe lady als, / In-to a comly closet coyntly ho entreȝ.
Closet, chapelle.
A Closset is the halfe of the Barre, and tenne of them maie be borne in one fielde.
He's a closet case.
Use closet when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Closet means A small room within a house used to store clothing, food, or other household supplies..
Common synonyms include armchair, cabinet, bathroom, secret.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
A Closet full of shelves... it... should therefore be called a Cupboard rather than a Closet.
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