Reclusive

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Reclusive \Re*clu"sive\ (r[-e]*kl[=u]"s[i^]v), a.
     1. Affording retirement from society. "Some reclusive and
        religious life." --Shak.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Disposed to avoid the company of other people; living like


        a recluse[1]; not sociable; -- of people.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  reclusive
       adj 1: withdrawn from society; seeking solitude; "lived an unsocial
              reclusive life" [syn: {recluse}, {withdrawn}]
       2: 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}]