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Reclusive   /rɪklˈusɪv/  /riklˈusɪv/   Listen
Reclusive

adjective
1.
Withdrawn from society; seeking solitude.  Synonyms: recluse, withdrawn.
2.
Providing privacy or seclusion.  Synonyms: cloistered, secluded, sequestered.  "Sat close together in the sequestered pergola" , "Sitting under the reclusive calm of a shade tree" , "A secluded romantic spot"



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"Reclusive" Quotes from Famous Books



... success Will fashion the event in better shape Than I can lay it down in likelihood. But if all aim but this be levell'd false, The supposition of the lady's death Will quench the wonder of her infamy: And if it sort not well, you may conceal her,— As best befits her wounded reputation,— In some reclusive and religious life, Out of all eyes, tongues, minds, ...
— Much Ado About Nothing • William Shakespeare [Craig, Oxford edition]

... sprinting easily toward her, and as the distance shortened, he recognized her. Edith Bailey, a second-year psychology major who had been attending his classes two semesters. Very intelligent, reclusive, not a local-grown product. Her work had a grimness about it, as though psychology was a dire obsession, especially abnormal psychology. One of her theme papers had been an exhaustive, mature but somehow overly determined, treatise on self-induced hallucination and auto-suggestion. ...
— Strange Alliance • Bryce Walton



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