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Closed vs Closeted - What's the difference?

closed | closeted |

As adjectives the difference between closed and closeted

is that closed is sealed, made inaccessible or impassable; not open while closeted is not open about one's homosexuality.

As verbs the difference between closed and closeted

is that closed is past tense of close while closeted is past tense of closet.

closed

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Sealed, made inaccessible or impassable; not open
  • (of a store or business) Not operating or conducting trade
  • Not public.
    • closed source
    a closed committee
  • (topology, of a set) Having an open complement.
  • (mathematics, of a set) Such that its image under the specified operation is contained in it.
    • The set of integers is closed under addition: \forall x,y\in\mathbb{Z}\,x+y\in\mathbb{Z}.
  • (mathematics, logic, of a formula) Lacking a free variable.

    • Synonyms

    * shut

    See also

    * close

    Verb

    (head)
  • (close)

    • Anagrams

    * (l) ----

    closeted

    English

    Etymology 1

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (informal) Not open about one's homosexuality.
    • Synonyms
    * (sense, not open about one's homosexuality) in the closet

    Etymology 2

    See (closet) (verb)

    Verb

    (head)
  • (closet)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Confined.
    • He's spent all day closeted in his room.
    Synonyms
    * (confined) confined, holed up