Webster's 1828 Dictionary
RECLUSIVE
a.Affording retirement from society.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
RECLUSIVE
RECLUSIVE Re *clu "sive, a.
Defn: Affording retirement from society. "Some reclusive and religious life. " Shak.
New American Oxford Dictionary
reclusive
re clu sive |riˈklo͞osiv, -ziv rəˈklusɪv | ▶adjective avoiding the company of other people; solitary: a reclusive life in rural Ireland. DERIVATIVES re clu sive ly adverb, re clu sive ness noun
Oxford Dictionary
reclusive
re |clu ¦sive |rɪˈkluːsɪv | ▶adjective avoiding the company of other people; solitary: he led a reclusive life. DERIVATIVES reclusively adverb, reclusiveness noun
American Oxford Thesaurus
reclusive
reclusive adjective a reclusive life in the mountains: solitary, secluded, isolated, hermitlike, hermitic, eremitic, eremitical, cloistered. ANTONYMS gregarious.
Oxford Thesaurus
reclusive
reclusive adjective she lived a reclusive life and was hardly ever seen: solitary, secluded, isolated, hermit-like, cloistered, sequestered, withdrawn, retiring, shut away; introverted, unsociable, antisocial, misanthropic; rare seclusive, eremitic, eremitical, hermitic, anchoritic. ANTONYMS gregarious, sociable.
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