Chapter Cloister to Cœliac passion of C by Soule's Synonymes

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 Retired, withdrawn, concealed, secluded, pent up.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