shut

1. 1.

   not open

   “the door slammed shut”

   Synonymsunopenclosed

   Antonymsopen
2. 2.

   used especially of mouth or eyes

   “he sat quietly with closed eyes”

   “his eyes were shut against the sunlight”

   Synonymsclosed

   Similarblinkingcompressedsquinched

Other forms of shut

past tense

shutted·

present participle

shutting

third person

shuts·

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.

Questions about shut

What does shut mean?

shut means "move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shut?

shut has 1 syllable: shut. In IPA it is /ˈʃʌt/.

What is another word for shut?

Close synonyms include close, close, exclude, keep out, shut out. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of shut?

The recorded antonyms are open.

Is shut a common word?

shut is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.