Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to closet
Participle: closeted
Gerund: closeting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | closet |
| you | closet |
| he;she;it | closets |
| we | closet |
| you | closet |
| they | closet |
Perfect
| I | have closeted |
| you | have closeted |
| he;she;it | has closeted |
| we | have closeted |
| you | have closeted |
| they | have closeted |
Past
| I | closeted |
| you | closeted |
| he;she;it | closeted |
| we | closeted |
| you | closeted |
| they | closeted |
Pluperfect
| I | had closeted |
| you | had closeted |
| he;she;it | had closeted |
| we | had closeted |
| you | had closeted |
| they | had closeted |
Future
| I | will closet |
| you | will closet |
| he;she;it | will closet |
| we | will closet |
| you | will closet |
| they | will closet |
Future Perfect
| I | will have closeted |
| you | will have closeted |
| he;she;it | will have closeted |
| we | will have closeted |
| you | will have closeted |
| they | will have closeted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | closet |
| you | closet |
| he;she;it | closet |
| we | closet |
| you | closet |
| they | closet |
Perfect
| I | have closeted |
| you | have closeted |
| he;she;it | have closeted |
| we | have closeted |
| you | have closeted |
| they | have closeted |
Imperfect
| I | closeted |
| you | closeted |
| he;she;it | closeted |
| we | closeted |
| you | closeted |
| they | closeted |
Pluperfect
| I | had closeted |
| you | had closeted |
| he;she;it | had closeted |
| we | had closeted |
| you | had closeted |
| they | had closeted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would closet |
| you | would closet |
| he;she;it | would closet |
| we | would closet |
| you | would closet |
| they | would closet |
Perfect
| I | would have closeted |
| you | would have closeted |
| he;she;it | would have closeted |
| we | would have closeted |
| you | would have closeted |
| they | would have closeted |
Imperative
| you | closet |
| we | Let's closet |
| you | closet |
Verbs conjugated like 'closet'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'closet'
close,
closen,
alose,
claret,
cloke,
clome,
clone,
clot,
clout,
coosen,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1340, from O.Fr. closet "small enclosure," dim. of clos, from L. clausum "closed space," from neut. pp. of claudere "to shut" (see close (v.)). In Matt. vi:6 used to render L. cubiculum, Gk. tamieion; originally in Eng. "a private room for study or prayer;" modern sense of "small side-room for storage" is first recorded 1616. The adjective meaning "secret, unknown" recorded from 1952, first of alcoholism, but by 1970s used principally of homosexuality; the phrase come out of the closet "admit something openly" first recorded 1963, and led to new meanings for the word out.
2. From Middle English closet, from Old French closet, from clos (“private space”) + -et (diminutive suffix), from Latin clausum. Equivalent to close + -et, but generally applied in French solely to small open-air enclosures.
Sample Sentences
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The ambassador has been closeted with the prime minister all afternoon. We're all worried what will be announced when they exit.
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He was to call a new legislature, to closet its members. [1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC:]
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He had been closeted with De Quadra. [1856–1870, James Anthony Froude, History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth, volume (please specify |volume=I to XII), London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:]
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See what contempt is fallen on human kind; […] See Bedlam's closeted and handcuff'd charge / Surpass'd in frenzy by the mad at large; [1784, William Cowper, Tirocinium, or A Review of Schools:]
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[…] she had to look twice over her shoulder when the Gay Northeasters and the City Belles strolled down Seventh Avenue, they were so handsome. But this envy-streaked pleasure Alice closeted, and never let the girl see how she admired those ready-for-bed-in-the-street clothes. [1992, Toni Morrison, Jazz, page 55:]