closedadjective
uk/kləʊzd/us/kloʊzd/closed adjective (NOT OPEN)
A1 not open:
It might be less draughty if the door were closed.
A1 not open for business:
All the shops were closed, so we couldn't buy any food.
More examples
- The bank's closed now, but I can get some money out with my card.
- The restaurant is always closed on Wednesdays.
- The road was closed while the vehicles that had been involved in the accident were towed away.
- The hotel is closed during low season, i.e. from October to March.
- Is the kitchen door closed, so that the dog cannot get in?
- The road was closed all day by order of the police.
- Will patrons kindly note that this shop will be closed on 17 July.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Open and closed
- airtight
- ajar
- barred
- crack
- gaping
- hermetic
- hermetically sealed
- latch
- open
- outspread
- patency
- sealed
- shut
- to
- undone
- watertight
- wide-eyed
closed adjective (ENDED)
finished and therefore not able to be discussed any more :
"The matter is closed," said the headteacher.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Finished & over
- bar
- be (all) over bar the shouting idiom
- be done and dusted idiom
- can 1
- done
- down
- dust
- finito
- in the can idiom
- lapsed
- last
- mission
- one, two, etc. down, one, two etc. to go. idiom
- over
- see
- see the last of sth/sb idiom
- through
- up
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closed adjective (NOT ACCEPTING IDEAS)
C2 not wanting to accept new ideas, people, customs, etc.:
You have such a closed mind.
The setting of the novel is the closed world of banking.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Unwilling and reluctant
- arsed
- balk
- baulk
- be blowed if... idiom
- be in no mood for sth/to do sth idiom
- begrudge
- disinclination
- disinclined
- disobliging
- drag your heels/feet idiom
- fag
- grudge
- jib
- not have the stomach for sth idiom
- rather you than me idiom
- reluctance
- reluctant
- shagged
- sticky
- stomach
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Idiom(s)
behind closed doors