ceilinged

English

Etymology

From ceiling +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiːlɪŋd/

Adjective

ceilinged (not comparable)

1. (especially in combination) Having a (specified type of) ceiling.
   • 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.

Synonyms

• ceiled

Derived terms

• unceilinged

 

Anagrams

• diligence