Meanings
- not comparablePlaced in a secure environment.
Even if you are ensconced in a pandemic pod with a romantic partner or family members, you can still feel lonely — often camouflaged as sadness, irritability, anger and lethargy — because you’re not getting the full range of human interactions that you need, almost like not eating a balanced diet.
2020 September 1, Kate Murphy, “We’re All Socially Awkward Now”, in The New York Times, →ISSN - not comparableSettled comfortably.
Though ensconced in the seat of the Supreme One, Lahiri Mahasaya showed reverence to all men, irrespective of their differing merits.
1946, Paramahansa Yogananda, chapter 35, in Autobiography of a Yogi2 more examples
Ensconced, each in a large fauteuil, wrapped in loose, white dressing-gowns, the hair only gathered with a single riband, sat the two friends.
1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A Late Breakfast”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 72I have caught them under my pillow and on my head; while in every box, and under every board which has lain for some days undisturbed, little scorpions are sure to be found snugly ensconced, with their formidable tails quickly turned up ready for attack or defence.
1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 258
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of ensconce
Translations
Czech usazený, uvelebený
- usazenýplaced in a secure environment
- uvelebenýsettled comfortably
- usazenýsettled comfortably
Polish bezpiecznie ulokowany, wygodnie ułożony
- bezpiecznie ulokowanyplaced in a secure environment
- wygodnie ułożonysettled comfortably
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ensconced. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ensconced
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