seclusive

[si-kloo-siv]

adjective

1. tending to seclude, especially oneself.

2. causing or providing seclusion.

seclusive

/ sɪˈkluːsɪv /

adjective

1. tending to seclude

2. fond of seclusion

Other Word Forms

• seclusiveness noun
• seclusively adverb
• nonseclusive adjective
• nonseclusively adverb
• nonseclusiveness noun
• unseclusive adjective
• unseclusively adverb
• unseclusiveness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of seclusive¹

1815–25; secluse (< Latin sēclūsus secluded; seclusion ) + -ive

Example Sentences

“But,” to quote Dr. Joseph Satten, one of the examiners, “Lowell Lee Andrews felt no emotions whatsoever. He considered himself the only important, only significant person in the world. And in his own seclusive world it seemed to him just as right to kill his mother as to kill an animal or a fly.”

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Fraternities—and sororities, for that matter—are seclusive by nature.

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It all goes back to the seclusive pathos Yorke and Godrich injected alone together over those two years on their laptops.

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And this year, if the Oscars go first, one could claim that the Golden Globes — voted on by a small, seclusive set of voters — are more irrelevant than ever.

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The more conservative idea was that man should be meditative and seclusive, that he should withdraw himself altogether from the pleasures of this world and work out his salvation with his eye "single to the honor and glory of God."

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Related Words

• cloistered 
• deserted 
• hidden 
• lonely 
• quiet 
• remote 
• uninhabited