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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
RECLU'SIVE, a. Affording retirement from society.
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
adj
1: withdrawn from society; seeking solitude; "lived an unsocial reclusive life" [syn: recluse, reclusive, withdrawn]
2: providing privacy or seclusion; "the cloistered academic world of books"; "sat close together in the sequestered pergola"; "sitting under the reclusive calm of a shade tree"; "a secluded romantic spot" [syn: cloistered, reclusive, secluded, sequestered]
Merriam Webster's
adjective see recluse I
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Reclusive Re*clu"sive, a. Affording retirement from society. ``Some reclusive and religious life.'' --Shak.
Collin's Cobuild Dictionary
A reclusive person or animal lives alone and deliberately avoids the company of others. She had been living a reclusive life in Los Angeles since her marriage broke up. ADJ
