secluded

3 definitions found

secluded - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Seclude \Se*clude\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Secluded; p. pr. & vb.
     n. Secluding.] [L. secludere, seclusum; pref. se- aside +
     claudere to shut. See Close, v. t.]
     1. To shut up apart from others; to withdraw into, or place
        in, solitude; to separate from society or intercourse with
        others.
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              Let Eastern tyrants from the light of heaven
              Seclude their bosom slaves.           --Thomson.
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     2. To shut or keep out; to exclude. [Obs.] --Evelyn.
        [1913 Webster] -- Se*clud"ed*ly, adv. --
        Se*clud"ed*ness, n.
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secluded - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  secluded
      adj 1: hidden from general view or use; "a privy place to rest
             and think"; "a secluded romantic spot"; "a secret garden"
             [syn: privy, secluded, secret]
      2: 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" [syn: cloistered, reclusive,
         secluded, sequestered]

secluded - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  115 Moby Thesaurus words for "secluded":
     abstruse, alone, anonymous, apart, at rest, beclouded, blind,
     buried, calm, cloistered, close, closet, clouded, concealed, cool,
     covered, covert, detached, dwindling, ebbing, eclipsed, eremitic,
     even-tenored, far-off, halcyon, hermetic, hid, hidden, hushed,
     impassive, in a backwater, in a cloud, in a fog, in eclipse,
     in purdah, in the wings, incognito, incommunicado, inmost,
     innermost, insular, interior, intimate, inward, isolated, latent,
     lonely, moldering, monastic, mysterious, obfuscated, obscure,
     obscured, occult, out-of-the-way, out-of-the-world, pacific,
     peaceable, peaceful, personal, placid, private, privy, quarantined,
     quiescent, quiet, recluse, recondite, remote, removed, reposeful,
     reposing, restful, resting, retired, screened, secluse, seclusive,
     secret, segregated, separate, separated, sequestered, sequestrated,
     sheltered, shut off, shy, smooth, solitary, still, still as death,
     stillish, stilly, stoic, stolid, subsiding, tranquil, unagitated,
     under an eclipse, under cover, under house arrest, under wraps,
     underground, undisturbed, unfrequented, unknown, unmoved,
     unperturbed, unruffled, unstirring, untroubled, unvisited, waning,
     withdrawn, wrapped in clouds