Closeted

Quick meaning: Closeted is an adjective meaning (informal) Not open about one's sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity.

Meaning

(informal) Not open about one's sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity.

More Meanings

1. (by extension) Not open about some aspect of one's identity, tendency, or fondness; secret.
2. simple past and past participle of closet
3. Confined.
4. sheltered; protected.

Example Sentences

He's spent all day closeted in his room.

Now he feels a connection between his own closeted, esoteric sufferings and strivings and those of the poor urban working people all around him.

Sokolsky asks if he realizes that this is a walk-in clinic for closeted reality benders, and he's a disaster-response coordinator, not a therapist.

[…] the remaining quotations, chiefly from English poetry, interested me only slightly more. They were the elegiac favourites of a closeted Romantic.

Synonyms for closeted

Depending on context, synonyms include confined.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cupboard, wardrobe, press, covert, loo, confidential.

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