Hypertext Webster Gateway: "reclusive"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Reclusive \Re*clu"sive\, a.
Affording retirement from society. ``Some reclusive and
religious life.'' --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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adj 1: withdrawn from society; seeking solitude; "lived an unsocial
reclusive life" [syn: {recluse}, {withdrawn}]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}]
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