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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Disposed to shut out; inclined to dwell apart; retiring, or affecting retirement, privacy, or solitude; exclusive.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Tending to seclude; keeping in seclusion; secluding; sequestering.

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  • adjective Serving or tending to seclude (oneself); affecting seclusion.

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Examples

  • I would doubt that, because it's a much more seclusive country than Iran.

    CNN Transcript Nov 11, 2009 2009

  • It's kept behind "especially high walls" for privacy and seclusive separation from other operations based there.

    Plan Iraq - Permanent Occupation 2007

  • It's kept behind "especially high walls" for privacy and seclusive separation from other operations based there.

    Plan Iraq - Permanent Occupation 2007

  • What does the invasive and seclusive life of these children have to do with the Easter Bunny?

    Worshipping the living goddess: Is it a violation of human rights? Ann Althouse 2006

  • These patients are seclusive and avoid social contact, and they are indifferent to hospital staff, visitors, relatives, and their physical environs.

    The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993

  • "Oh, do you think so, you seclusive wretch," the headman said, as other villagers closed in around them, each looking more surly than the others.

    Demons Don't Dream Anthony, Piers 1993

  • "Strong regressive and seclusive tendencies," Bassett explained, solemnly.

    This Crowded Earth Robert Bloch 1955

  • Grant had come to Oakdale late the previous autumn, and was living with his aunt, an odd, seclusive spinster, by the name of Priscilla Kent.

    Rival Pitchers of Oakdale Morgan Scott

  • Owing partly to the radical hatred of Europeans, partly to the suspicious and seclusive nature of the Moor, the presence of foreigners in the sacred Slave Market was tabooed.

    In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

  • He is very seclusive, keeping himself aloof from the other patients, as he considers himself very much their superior.

    Studies in Forensic Psychiatry Bernard Glueck

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