- cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastic, monastical - of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows
Antonym: worldly (indirect, via unworldly)
- 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)
- cloister - surround with a cloister, as of a garden
--1 is one way to surround, environ, encircle, circle, round, ring
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun cloister2
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- 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
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun cloister1
Somebody ----s somebody