[syn: recluse, reclusive, withdrawn]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Recluse \Re*cluse"\ (r[-e]*kl[=u]s"), a. [F. reclus, L.
reclusus, from recludere, reclusum, to unclose, open, in LL.,
to shut up. See Close.]
Shut up, sequestered; retired from the world or from public
notice; solitary; living apart; as, a recluse monk or hermit;
a recluse life
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In meditation deep, recluse
From human converse. --J. Philips.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Recluse \Re*cluse"\, n. [F. reclus, LL. reclusus. See Recluse,
a.]
1. A person who lives in seclusion from intercourse with the
world, as a hermit or monk; specifically, one of a class
of secluded devotees who live in single cells, usually
attached to monasteries.
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2. The place where a recluse dwells. [Obs.] --Foxe.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Recluse \Re*cluse"\, v. t.
To shut up; to seclude. [Obs.]
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
recluse
adj 1: withdrawn from society; seeking solitude; "lived an
unsocial reclusive life" [syn: recluse, reclusive,
withdrawn]
n 1: one who lives in solitude [syn: hermit, recluse,
solitary, solitudinarian, troglodyte]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
60 Moby Thesaurus words for "recluse":
Diogenes, Hieronymian, Hieronymite, Timon of Athens, anchoress,
anchorite, anchoritic, ascetic, bedridden invalid, cenobite,
character, cloistered, cloistered monk, closet cynic, crackpot,
crank, desert fathers, desert saints, domestic, eccentric, eremite,
eremitic, erratic, flake, freak, hermetic, hermit, hermitess,
hermitic, hermitish, homebody, invalid, isolationist, kook, loner,
marabout, monk, nonconformist, nun, nut, oddball, outcast, pariah,
pillar saint, pillarist, screwball, secluse, seclusionist,
seclusive, sequestered, shut in, shut up, shut-in, solitaire,
solitary, solitudinarian, stay-at-home, strange duck, stylite,
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