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📌 WORD / CONCEPT
closed-off
🧠 SHORT MEANING
Unwilling to share feelings or thoughts; emotionally guarded or distant; reluctant to engage with others.
🟢 A1 LEVEL
I am closed-off.
She is closed-off.
He seems closed-off.
Don't be closed-off.
We are closed-off.
🟡 A2 LEVEL
I'm feeling closed-off.
She was closed-off about her past.
Why are you closed-off?
He has a closed-off expression.
I can be closed-off sometimes.
She gave a closed-off answer.
His closed-off attitude.
I'm closed-off with strangers.
The door is closed-off.
Try not to be closed-off.
🔵 B1 LEVEL
I've been closed-off since the breakup.
She's naturally closed-off and takes time to open up.
His closed-off body language made conversation difficult.
I'm feeling closed-off today—I need some space.
She responded in a closed-off way that ended the discussion.
The new teammate seems closed-off but might just be shy.
He managed a closed-off nod instead of sharing his thoughts.
I'm closed-off by nature—trust doesn't come easily.
The patient was emotionally closed-off during the session.
She navigated the meeting with closed-off politeness.
🟣 B2 LEVEL
Her closed-off nature wasn't hostility but a learned defense from past hurts.
The manager's closed-off style created distance within the team.
There's a difference between being closed-off and needing healthy boundaries.
He navigated personal questions with closed-off deflections that protected his privacy.
Studies show prolonged closed-off behavior can impact relationship satisfaction.
I'm closed-off not to reject others, but to protect what little trust I have left.
She worked on becoming less closed-off through gradual vulnerability.
The group's closed-off member finally shared and changed the dynamic.
His memoir details years of being emotionally closed-off after trauma.
The negotiation stalled due to both sides remaining closed-off.
🔴 C1-C2 LEVEL
The psychologist describes closed-off behavior as emotional inhibition in response to perceived threat.
Her research examines how chronic closed-off states correlate with attachment avoidance.
The novel's protagonist remains closed-off until a crisis forces reluctant openness.
He argued that social media can encourage performative openness while fostering real closed-offness.
The patient's closed-off demeanor gradually softened with consistent therapeutic alliance.
In personality theory, closed-off traits align with low extraversion and high defensiveness.
The diplomat maintained strategically closed-off posture to avoid revealing positions prematurely.
Her poetry explores the aching isolation of closed-off hearts yearning for connection.
The study found closed-off communication styles reduce conflict but also intimacy.
He critiqued cultures that pathologize closed-off individuals rather than respecting emotional autonomy.
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