1. Of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows
   "The cloistered atmosphere of the monastery provided a peaceful retreat from modern life";
   - cloistral, conventual, monastic, monastical
    
2. Providing privacy or seclusion
   "the cloistered academic world of books";
   - reclusive, secluded, sequestered

1. Seclude from the world in or as if in a cloister
   "She cloistered herself in the office"
    
2. Surround with a cloister
   "cloister the garden"

See also: private, unworldly

Type of: border, environ, insulate, isolate, ring, skirt, surround

Encyclopedia: Cloistered