Ensconced
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Ensconced is an adjective meaning Placed in a secure environment.
Meaning
Placed in a secure environment.
More Meanings
- Settled comfortably.
- simple past and past participle of ensconce
Example Sentences
Though ensconced in the seat of the Supreme One, Lahiri Mahasaya showed reverence to all men, irrespective of their differing merits.
Ensconced, each in a large fauteuil, wrapped in loose, white dressing-gowns, the hair only gathered with a single riband, sat the two friends.
Even if you are ensconced in a pandemic pod with a romantic partner or family members, you can still feel lonely — often camouflaged as sadness, irritability, anger and lethargy — because you’re not getting the full range of human interactions that you need, almost like not eating a balanced diet.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include forted, incaverned, encoffined, insulated, enclavated, immured.
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