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say it: klohzd
closed is an adjective meaning "not open or affording passage or access". It is pronounced /ˈkloʊzd/ — klohzd. It carries 9 recorded senses.
not open or affording passage or access
“the many closed streets made travel difficult”
“our neighbors peeped from behind closed curtains”
(set theory) of an interval that contains both its endpoints
mathematics
used especially of mouth or eyes
“he sat quietly with closed eyes”
“his eyes were shut against the sunlight”
with shutters closed
not having an open mind
“a closed mind unreceptive to new ideas”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for closed come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.