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cloistered
 
Adjective cloistered has 2 senses
  1. cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastic, monastical - of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows
    Antonym: worldly (indirect, via unworldly)
  2. cloistered, reclusive, secluded, sequestered - providing privacy or seclusion; "the cloistered academic world of books"; "sat close together in the sequestered pergola"; "sitting under the reclusive calm of a shade tree"; "a secluded romantic spot"
    Antonym: public (indirect, via private)
Verb cloister has 2 senses
  1. cloister - surround with a cloister, as of a garden
    --1 is one way to     surround, environ, encircle, circle, round, ring
    Derived form: noun cloister2
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  2. cloister - seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister; "She cloistered herself in the office"
    --2 is one way to     isolate, insulate
    Derived form: noun cloister1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s somebody
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