SYNONYMS AND RELATED EXPRESSIONS
reclusive
adjective
Avoiding company and preferring seclusion.
Local English device voice, when available. This is not a recorded dictionary pronunciation.
Avoiding company
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Usage distinction
Return to topReclusive describes withdrawal from social contact. Introverted concerns temperament and does not necessarily mean avoiding people.
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See reclusive in use
The reclusive painter rarely attended public openings.
A reclusive tenant in a fictional boarding house preferred spending most evenings alone in the attic room where she wrote travel puzzles.
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