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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Withdrawn from society; seeking solitude.  Synonyms: recluse, withdrawn.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



... 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

... 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]

... ceased altogether. He was seldom seen either below in his cabin or on deck. He could not be induced to take his meals regularly, and took to shutting himself up in his stateroom. A dangerous form of melancholia held him in fetters, so that when friendly visitors called to see him his reclusive mood forbade any intercourse with even men who ...
— The Shellback's Progress - In the Nineteenth Century • Walter Runciman



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