Synonyms for closeted
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1. closetedadjective

   confined

   He's spent all day closeted in his room.

   Synonyms:
   confined, holed up

2. closetedadjective

   Not open about one's homosexuality.

   Synonyms:
   in the closet

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1. Joseph Villa:

   We felt like we had to be closeted, we had to be quiet about it or we would face a backlash and bullying, and I just got tired of the narrative of hate. You know, you’re a racist, you’re a bigot, you’re this, you’re that -- people losing jobs, all because they voted for our now elected president.

2. Alex Morse:

   Growing up gay and closeted in a small city like Holyoke, I struggled with accepting my sexuality, and in high school, I had a hard time finding other openly gay students, as I've become more comfortable with Alex Morse and my sexuality, like any young, single, openly gay man, I have had consensual adult relationships, including some with college students.

3. Ellen Page:

   If I was still closeted I wouldn’t be making this show, and let’s think about how much that limits people, or limits people of all minorities who are not given opportunities to create work, we do a job that’s about telling stories — obviously it’s becoming clear that we can’t just be telling stories about one group of people. People need to have opportunity; that’s what’s going to make the whole industry grow and blossom. As a person who’s involved with it and as a person who’s an audience member, I really hope that starts to happen.

4. Peter Staley:

   For a closeted gay man, it was probably the worst environment I could have chosen, it was very infuriating and humiliating for someone who had a dark secret like I had.

5. Beth Brooke-Marciniak:

   I mean, so many of our women are former athletes and yet no one was talking about it and no one knew it, i think the women who are former athletes have undervalued their own experience. It's almost like they're closeted athletes now and so I think we can help create those networks. They're there because there are so many former athletes.