Word Meanings - SEQUESTERED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Retired; secluded. "Sequestered scenes." Cowper. Along the cool, sequestered vale of life. Gray.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SEQUESTERED)

• Recluse
• Shut
• sequestered
• retired
• apart
• solitary
• conventual
• regular
• dissocial
• Secluded
• Retired
• retreating
• hidden
• withdrawn
• secret
• private
• shaded

Related words: (words related to SEQUESTERED)

• REGULARITY
  The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.
• SHADOWY
  1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon
• SECRETE
  To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not known. Carpenter. Syn. -- To conceal; hide. See
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• PRIVATEERING
  Cruising in a privateer.
• SHADELESS
  Being without shade; not shaded.
• SHADEFUL
  Full of shade; shady.
• SHADING
  1. Act or process of making a shade. 2. That filling up which represents the effect of more or less darkness, expressing rotundity, projection, etc., in a picture or a drawing.
• REGULARIA
  A division of Echini which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins.
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• SECRETARY
  secretari, Sp. & Pg. secretario, It. secretario, segretario) LL. secretarius, originally, a confidant, one intrusted with secrets, 1. One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets. 2. A person employed to write orders, letters, dispatches, public
• SHADD
  Rounded stones containing tin ore, lying at the surface of the ground, and indicating a vein. Raymond.
• SECRET
  segreto), fr. L. secretus, p.p. of secrernere to put apart, to 1. Hidden; concealed; as, secret treasure; secret plans; a secret vow. Shak. The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are revealed belong unto us. Deut.
• APARTMENT HOUSE
  A building comprising a number of suites designed for separate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; -- often distinguished in the United States from a flat house.
• APARTNESS
  The quality of standing apart.
• RETIRER
  One who retires.
• SHADOOF
  A machine, resembling a well sweep, used in Egypt for raising water from the Nile for irrigation.
• SHADOWINESS
  The quality or state of being shadowy.
• RETIREMENT
  1. The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer. O, blest Retirement, friend of life's decline. Goldsmith. Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books. Thomson. 2. A place of seclusion
• SHADY
  1. Abounding in shade or shades; overspread with shade; causing shade. The shady trees cover him with their shadow. Job. xl. 22. And Amaryllis fills the shady groves. Dryden. 2. Sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat. Cast it also that
• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• DOUBLE-SHADE
  To double the natural darkness of . Milton.
• OVERSHADE
  To cover with shade; to render dark or gloomy; to overshadow. Shak.
• DISSHADOW
  To free from shadow or shade. G. Fletcher.
• OVERSHADOW
  1. To throw a shadow, or shade, over; to darken; to obscure. There was a cloud that overshadowed them. Mark ix. 7. 2. Fig.: To cover with a superior influence. Milton.