secluded

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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}]
    
from The 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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from 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

    

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