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closeted¹

  • /ˈklɒzɪtɪd/
  • /ˈklɑzɪtɪd/ cot caught merger

Where it comes from

From closet (“state of concealment”) + -ed.

adjective more closeted · most closeted

  1. informal Not open about one's sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity. Sally Gearhart, an ex-christian from Illinois who in the early seventies abandoned closeted lesbianism on Midwestern church college faculties for radical feminism in San Francisco,

    Similar: in the closet

  2. broadly Not open about some aspect of one's identity, tendency, or fondness; secret. […] the remaining quotations, chiefly from English poetry, interested me only slightly more. They were the elegiac favourites of a closeted Romantic.

closeted²

  • /ˈklɒzɪtɪd/
  • /ˈklɑzɪtɪd/ cot caught merger

Where it comes from

See closet (verb)

verb

  1. participle, past simple past and past participle of closet

adjective

  1. not comparable Confined. He's spent all day closeted in his room.

    Similar: confined, holed up

  2. not comparable sheltered; protected. In my salubrious constituency of Cheltenham and in the leafy lanes of Gloucestershire, we are perhaps somewhat closeted from these unpleasant and harsh realities of the urban world of London, Plymouth, Birmingham and other major cities

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adj not open about one's sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity

Españolenclosetado, no declarado, no asumido, en el closet, en el armario, de clóset
Portuguêsno armário, enrustido
Italianovelato

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@misc{closeted_2026,
  title = {closeted},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/closeted},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}