MEANING
Inclined to avoid other people's company and live withdrawn from social contact.
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Withdrawn residents, inaccessible heirs, isolation inside occupied homes.Show an inhabited place cut off by its occupant's habits rather than geography alone.
Words that belong together
- reclusive owner
- reclusive life
- increasingly reclusive
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The reclusive owner received parcels but no guests.
After the trial, she became increasingly reclusive.
A reclusive scholar occupied the only heated room in the west wing.
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- reclusive
Usage notes
Primary category: gothic. Stronger than simply private; withdrawal can be chosen or conditioned by circumstances, and is not automatically a disorder. Comparative more reclusive; superlative most reclusive. Derived adverb reclusively.
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