seclusive
Americanadjective
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tending to seclude, especially oneself.
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causing or providing seclusion.
adjective
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tending to seclude
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fond of seclusion
Other Word Forms
- nonseclusive adjective
- nonseclusively adverb
- nonseclusiveness noun
- seclusively adverb
- seclusiveness noun
- unseclusive adjective
- unseclusively adverb
- unseclusiveness noun
Etymology
Origin of seclusive
1815–25; secluse (< Latin sēclūsus secluded; seclusion ) + -ive
Example Sentences
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Fraternities—and sororities, for that matter—are seclusive by nature.
From Time • Sep. 24, 2014
He was a friend of Bernard B. Kerik, the former police commissioner who pleaded guilty to charges including tax fraud, and he made his political bones working in the seclusive borough president’s office.
From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2010
News came last week that the Mexican sociologist Professor Javier Uranga has discovered such a system in operation among the seclusive Yalalteca Indians in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Buenos Aires it was also the day on which Argentina's mysterious, seclusive master politician.
From Time Magazine Archive
Barrowvians, shades seclusive, Be not to us exclusive, We are ready for you—Come!
From The Sorcery Club by O'Donnell, Elliott
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