in the closet
prep_phrase/ɪn ðə ˈklɑzɪt/US/ɪn ðə ˈklɒzɪt/UK
Definitions
Not open about one's sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity.
- Was he in control of that narrative? Most likely not. If he’d had the choice, he would have stayed in the closet.
Not open about some feature of one's life
Not open about some feature of one's life; often construed with about.
- She's in the closet about her gambling addiction.
- She's in the gambling-addiction closet.
The neighborhood
- synonymcloseted
- antonymout of the closet
- antonymout
- neighborcloset
- neighborcloseted
- neighborcloset case
- neighborcome out of the closet
- neighborcome out
- neighborpass
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for in the closet. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA