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seclusive
[si-kloo-siv]
adjective
tending to seclude, especially oneself.
causing or providing seclusion.
seclusive
/ ²õɪˈ°ì±ô³Ü˲õɪ±¹ /
adjective
tending to seclude
fond of seclusion
Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms
- seclusively adverb
- seclusiveness noun
- nonseclusive adjective
- nonseclusively adverb
- nonseclusiveness noun
- unseclusive adjective
- unseclusively adverb
- unseclusiveness noun
- ²õ±ðˈ³¦±ô³Ü²õ¾±±¹±ð²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
- ²õ±ðˈ³¦±ô³Ü²õ¾±±¹±ð±ô²â adverb
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of seclusive1
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.â€
Fraternities—and sororities, for that matter—are seclusive by nature.
It all goes back to the seclusive pathos Yorke and Godrich injected alone together over those two years on their laptops.
And this year, if the Oscars go first, one could claim that the Golden GlobesÌý—Ìývoted on by a small, seclusive set of votersÌý—Ìýare more irrelevant than ever.
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 51³Ô¹Ïs
- cloisteredÌý
- desertedÌý
- hiddenÌý
- lonelyÌý
- quietÌý
- remoteÌý
- uninhabitedÌý
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