enclosed

/ɛnˈkloʊzd/

/ɛnˈklʌʊzd/

Things that are enclosed are surrounded on all sides, closed or penned in. If your grandfather's condo development is enclosed by a high fence, you might need to check in with a guard before you can visit him.

Your pet guinea pig is enclosed by her cage, and when you're at school, you are enclosed by the walls of the building. Homes, car lots, gardens, and school yards are all commonly enclosed by fences. If you put a check inside your cousin's birthday card, the money is also enclosed. Enclosed comes from the verb enclose, which is rooted in the Old French enclore, "surround, confine, or contain."

Definitions of enclosed

1. adjective

   closed in or surrounded or included within
   “an enclosed porch”

   “an enclosed yard”

   “the enclosed check is to cover shipping and handling”

   synonyms:

   basined

   enclosed in a basin

   besieged

   surrounded by hostile forces

   boxed, boxed in, boxed-in

   enclosed in or as if in a box

   capsulate, capsulated

   used of seeds or spores that are enclosed in a capsule

   clathrate

   designating or relating to a compound in which one component is physically enclosed within the crystal structure of another

   closed, closed in

   blocked against entry

   coarctate

   (of an insect pupa) enclosed in a rigid case

   embedded

   enclosed firmly in a surrounding mass

   fencelike

   resembling a fence

   included

   enclosed in the same envelope or package

   involved

   enveloped

   self-enclosed

   of self-imposed enclosure or confinement

   encircled, surrounded

   confined on all sides

   antonyms:

   unenclosed

   not closed in our surrounded or included

   hypaethral, hypethral

   partly or entirely open to the sky

   open

   having no protecting cover or enclosure

   unfenced

   not enclosed by a fence