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What is the adjective for cloistered?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb cloister which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

cloistered
  1. Dwelling or raised in, or as if in, cloisters; solitary.
  2. isolated, protected, hidden away for the sake of maintaining innocence
  3. naive, lacking in worldliness
  4. Furnished with cloisters.
  5. Synonyms:
      6. secluded, remote, hidden, sequestered, isolated, sheltered, retired, quiet, secret, covert, solitary, reclusive, withdrawn, seclusive, secluse, insulated, protected, shielded, cloistral, confined, hermitic, monastic, retiring, unworldly, anchoritic, eremitic, recluse, hermit-like, shut off, private, unfrequented, lonely, concealed, removed, out-of-the-way, off the beaten track, tucked away, screened, segregated, out of the way, deserted, undisturbed, lonesome, quarantined, cut off, cut-off, uninhabited, abandoned, blockaded, hermetic … more
  6. Examples:
      7. “She had a cloistered upbringing, residing within the quiet walls of an old monastery.”
cloistral
  1. Of, pertaining to, or living in a cloister.
  2. Sheltered from the world; monastic.
  3. Secluded.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. cloistered, secluded, remote, hidden, sequestered, isolated, sheltered, retired, quiet, secret, covert, solitary, reclusive, withdrawn, seclusive, secluse, insulated, protected, shielded, confined, hermitic, monastic, retiring, unworldly, anchoritic, eremitic, recluse, hermit-like, shut off, conventual, canonical, cenobitic, claustral, monachal, monastical, coenobitic, monkish, oblate, conventical, cenobiac, communal … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “Many generations have listened to this tale of a young girl high in her cloistral tower lowering her beautiful hair on command to an enchantress.”
      “This building from the first quarter of the 18th century became home to a century-old cloistral tradition.”
      “In the mid-18th century the cloistral buildings were demolished and a barracks for a regiment of English soldiers built there.”
cloisterlike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a cloister.
cloisteral
  1. Alternative form of cloistral
cloisterless
  1. Without a cloister.
cloistering
  1. present participle of cloister
  2. Synonyms:
      3. confining, isolating, sequestering, secluding, closeting, withdrawing, sheltering, shutting away, separating, segregating, insulating, quarantining, screening, cutting off, keeping apart, islanding, cocooning, closing off, setting apart, shutting off, immuring, blockading, ostracizing, concealing, covering, enclosing, protecting, retiring, removing, shielding, excluding, ostracising, hiding, embargoing, sequestrating, detaching, dividing, secreting, enisling, parting, cushioning, disengaging, defending, encloistering, abstracting, setting off, hiding oneself away, segregating oneself, shutting oneself off, cutting oneself off … more
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