a. | 1. | Affording retirement from society. |
2. | Disposed to avoid the company of other people; living like a recluse{1}; not sociable; - of people. |
Adj. | 1. | reclusive - withdrawn from society; seeking solitude; "lived an unsocial reclusive life" |
2. | reclusive - 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" |