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semi-closeted

semi-closeted is the alternative form of semicloseted.

Meaning of semicloseted

Adjective

semicloseted (not comparable)

  1. Partially open about one's sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity.
    • Glenn Burke was 27 when he walked out on Major League Baseball, his promising career as an outfielder undone mostly by the burden of being a semicloseted gay man.2014 July 14, John Branch, “Posthumous Recognition”, in The New York Times

Questions about semi-closeted

What is semi-closeted the alternative form of?
Semi-closeted is the alternative form of semicloseted.

Words near semi-closeted in the dictionary

  1. semi-circle
  2. semi-circles
  3. semi-circular
  4. semi-closed game
  5. semi-closed games
  6. semi-closeted
  7. semi-coke
  8. semi-cokes
  9. semi-colon
  10. semi-colonies
  11. semi-colons

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Adapted from Wiktionary: semi-closeted (page history and authors); semicloseted (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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