Adjective: shut up
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more shut up |
| Superlative | most shut up |
Sample Sentences
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2010. Jem (And Sam). Ferdinand Mount.
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She did not come to Court, but she must have been taken to Montagu's house, for the Clerkenwell house was all shut up and was to be sold.
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1865. The Wisconsin Farmer, and Northwestern Cultivator, Volume 17. Pg. 75.
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Open sheds are too much exposed to drifting snow, and they cannot be shut up and made warm enough for early lambing.
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1880. An Earnest Trifler. Mary Aplin Sprague. Pg. 166.
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Beaudeck is a very shut-up place.
Adjectives inflected like shut up
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology