Crossword clues for reclusive
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reclusive \Re*clu"sive\ (r[-e]*kl[=u]"s[i^]v), a.
Affording retirement from society. ``Some reclusive and religious life.''
--Shak.Disposed to avoid the company of other people; living like a recluse[1]; not sociable; -- of people.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from recluse + -ive. Recluse alone formerly served also as an adjective in English (early 13c.).
Wiktionary
a. Of, characterized by, or preferring privacy and isolation; secluded.
WordNet
adj. withdrawn from society; seeking solitude; "lived an unsocial reclusive life" [syn: recluse, withdrawn]
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, secluded, sequestered]
Usage examples of "reclusive".
Goodman was obscure, reclusive, and almost totally unknown, when he was hired by Lester Barnstorm, a somewhat tarnished and definitely over-the-hill executive at Marathon Productions.
The neighborhood had always called her Mousie because she was so small, but of late she had become quiet and reclusive, as well.
Perhaps a bit on the reclusive side, a bit careful, a bit overdetermined to control their own environment.
This puzzled me, and at the first opportunity I traveled into Aylesbury to make such inquiries as I could at a country store on the outskirts of the village, where, I reasoned, Seth might most probably have made purchases, since he had had the reputation of being a reclusive individual.
Lytton was astute enough to realize that it would be a major coup if the reclusive Monsieur Boulonnais were to make an appearance at this opening.
Subsequently, the gardens were created over some thirty-odd years, but the family turned reclusive.
Perhaps a bit on the reclusive side, a bit careful, a bit overdetermined to control their own environment.
The professor turned out to be more reclusive and odd and aggressively prickish than rumoured.
In addition, Tallyho is reclusive, hidden beyond a number of unpleasant settings.
New Orleans artist, watercolorist, single, had a tragic love affair with a businessman, very reclusive and eccentric.
Over the last few months while LuAnn had remained reclusive inside their mountainside fortress, Charlie had been the point man, meeting with prominent townsfolk, making the rounds of businesses and charities and university officials.
Actually, I don’t think that this is exactly true (the original Astor was a reclusive Medicean figure).
Which of them killed the reclusive Branford Wintour, and how will the bold young Dash Hardeen prove it?
It is entirely possible that there are still reclusive peoples in remote corners of these lands—tribes like the Rarámuri and the Zyu Huave, for instance—who do not even yet suspect that such beings as white men exist.
The daughter of reclusive wizards who lived in a remote mountain village, she was the sole survivor of an attack by Crinti raiders.