Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of lock
- not comparableHaving undergone locking; secured by a lock.
A locked door barred the way.
1 more example
We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall to the door of the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time. 'Twas locked, of course, but the Deacon man got a big bunch of keys out of his pocket and commenced to putter with the lock.
1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, pages 304–305 - not comparablecomputingProtected by a mutex or other token restricting access to a resource.
You can't delete a locked computer file.
- Irelandnot comparableVery drunk.
'Drunk. Battered. Ar meisce. In a state of alcohol-induced intoxication.' […] Nadine and I once watched the news and had a shot of absinthe every time someone said unnatural. We were absolutely locked.'
2021, Samantha Shannon, The Mask Falling, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 99Synonyms: drunk
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveVery drunk.
adjectiveStyled into dreadlocks; wearing dreadlocks.
Origin
* (drunk): Perhaps from airlocked.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic مُقْفَل
- مُقْفَل (muqfal)that has been locked (with a key)
Bulgarian заключен
- заключен (zaključen)that has been locked (with a key)
Catalan tancat, tancat amb clau
- tancatthat has been locked (with a key)
- tancat amb clauthat has been locked (with a key)
Dutch op slot
- op slotthat has been locked (with a key)
Esperanto ŝlosita
- ŝlositathat has been locked (with a key)
Finnish lukittu
- lukittuthat has been locked (with a key)
French fermé à clé, fermé à clef
- fermé à cléthat has been locked (with a key)
- fermé à clefthat has been locked (with a key)
- verrouilléthat has been locked (with a key)
German abgesperrt, abgeschlossen
- abgesperrtthat has been locked (with a key)
- abgeschlossenthat has been locked (with a key)
- zugeschlossenthat has been locked (with a key)
Hebrew נעול
- נעול (naúl)that has been locked (with a key)
Hungarian zárolt, szolgáltatóhoz/hálózathoz kötött
- zároltcomputing: protected by a mutex or other token restricting access to a resource
- szolgáltatóhoz/hálózathoz kötöttmobile telephony: bound to a carrier
- zártthat has been locked (with a key)
- bezártthat has been locked (with a key)
- lezártthat has been locked (with a key)
Italian chiuso a chiave
- chiuso a chiavethat has been locked (with a key)
Japanese 鍵が掛かった
- 鍵が掛かったthat has been locked (with a key)
Māori raka
- rakathat has been locked (with a key)
Persian قفل
- قفل (qofl)that has been locked (with a key)
Polish zamknięty, zakluczony
- zamkniętythat has been locked (with a key)
- zakluczonythat has been locked (with a key)
Portuguese trancado
- trancadothat has been locked (with a key)
Romanian încuiat
- încuiatthat has been locked (with a key)
Russian зало́ченый, за́пертый
- зало́ченый (zalóčenyj)mobile telephony: bound to a carrier
- за́пертый (zápertyj)that has been locked (with a key)
- закры́тый (zakrýtyj)that has been locked (with a key)
Scottish Gaelic glaiste
- glaistethat has been locked (with a key)
Slovak zamknutý
- zamknutýthat has been locked (with a key)
Spanish cerrado con llave / seguro / llavín
- cerrado con llave / seguro / llavínthat has been locked (with a key)
Swedish låst
- låstthat has been locked (with a key)
Turkish kilitli, kitli
- kilitlithat has been locked (with a key)
- kitlithat has been locked (with a key)
Vietnamese khoá
- khoáthat has been locked (with a key)
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with locked
All rhymes →Cite this entry
locked. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/locked
“locked.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/locked. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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