reclusive
1. providing privacy or seclusion
- the cloistered academic world of books
- sat close together in the sequestered pergola
- sitting under the reclusive calm of a shade tree
- a secluded romantic spot
• Syn:
cloistered, secluded, sequestered
• Similar to:
private
• Derivationally related forms:
reclusiveness
2. withdrawn from society;
seeking solitude
- lived an unsocial reclusive life
• Syn:
recluse, withdrawn
• Similar to:
unsocial
• Derivationally related forms:
withdrawnness (for: withdrawn), reclusiveness, recluse (for: recluse)
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