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- especiallyin compoundsnot comparableHaving a (specified type of) ceiling.
The vault was low-ceilinged, dimly lit and gigantic.
1995, Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: a Trilogy in Five Parts, →ISBN, page 2613 more examples
Cow Farm was a rambling building, with dark, uneven stairs, low-ceilinged rooms, queer, odd corners, and sudden unexpected doors.
1919, Hugh Walpole, chapter X, in Jeremy, New York: George H. Doran, page 240The 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,[…].
1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLCMy room was high ceilinged, lonely and full of echoes.
1969, Anne Sexton, “Eighteen Days Without You”, in The Complete Poems, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, published 1981, page 218Synonyms: ceiled · Antonyms: unceilinged, unceiled
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adjectiveprovided with a ceiling especially the overhead interior surface
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