- 3. Reserved, taciturn, reticent, secretive, incommunicative.
- 4. Retired, withdrawn, concealed, secluded, pent up.
- 5. Confined, stagnant, motionless.
- 6. Oppressive, uncomfortable.
- 7. Dense, compact, solid, compressed, firm, thick.
- 8. Near, approaching nearly, adjoining, adjacent, immediately, neighboring.
- 9. Intimate, confidential, devoted, strongly attached, dear.
- 10. Nearly balanced, hard-fought, sharply contested, almost lost.
- 11. Intense, intent, unremitting, earnest, fixed, assiduous.
- 12. Faithful, accurate, precise, exact, strict, nice.
- 13. Parsimonious, stingy, penurious, miserly, niggardly, close-fisted, close-handed, mean, illiberal, ungenerous,
churlish, curmudgeonly.
Close by. Very near, within a short distance, hard by.
Close-fisted, a. Penurious, parsimonious, stingy, miserly, niggardly, mean, close, close-handed, curmudgeonly, churlish, illiberal, ungenerous.
Close-handed, a. See close-fisted.
Closet, n.
- 1. Cabinet, private room, retiring-room.
- 2. Store-room, clothes-room.
Closet, v. a. Admit to intimate interview, put into concealment, admit to secret conference.
Closeting, n. Clandestine conference, secret conference.
Close up, Unite, join, consolidate, bring together