ceilinged

ceilinged

English

Etymology

    From ceiling + -ed.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈsiːlɪŋd/

    Adjective

    ceilinged (not comparable)

    1. (especially in combination) Having a (specified type of) ceiling.
      Synonym: ceiled
      Antonyms: unceilinged, unceiled
      • 1919, Hugh Walpole, chapter X, in Jeremy[1], New York: George H. Doran, page 240:
        Cow Farm was a rambling building, with dark, uneven stairs, low-ceilinged rooms, queer, odd corners, and sudden unexpected doors.
      • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
        The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, [].
      • 1969, Anne Sexton, “Eighteen Days Without You”, in The Complete Poems, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, published 1981, page 218:
        My room was high ceilinged, lonely and full of echoes.
      • 1995, Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: a Trilogy in Five Parts, →ISBN, page 261:
        The vault was low-ceilinged, dimly lit and gigantic.

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