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recluse
[ noun rek-loos, ri-kloos; adjective ri-kloos, rek-loos ]
noun
- a person who lives in seclusion or apart from society, often for religious meditation.
adjective
- shut off or apart from the world; living in seclusion, often for religious reasons.
- characterized by seclusion; solitary.
recluse
/ rɪˈkluːʒən; rɪˈkluːs /
noun
- a person who lives in seclusion
- a person who lives in solitude to devote himself to prayer and religious meditation; a hermit, anchorite, or anchoress
adjective
- solitary; retiring
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Derived Forms
- reclusion, noun
- reˈclusive, adjective
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Other Words From
- nonre·clusive adjective
- un·re·cluse adjective
- unre·clusive adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of recluse1
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Example Sentences
By only her second gig ever, she was opening for popular R&B recluse The Weeknd.
But the area is now a popular tourist destination and the amount of social interaction can be too much for a true recluse.
Two years later, in 1953, he evacuated to Cornish and became a celebrity recluse.
Lee is not a recluse, but she famously stopped granting interviews in 1964.
He was not a recluse, however, as the documents and electronic chips recovered by the SEALs from his lair revealed.
But, good recluse, you have not read Sainte-Beuve's famous article on the Academy and the candidateships.
Yet, none the less certainly, the Frenchman's work made expression possible to the recluse of Oxford.
This man was called Lao-tse, a recluse and philosopher, who was already an old man when Confucius began his travels.
The road was most romantically recluse, and so serpentine as never to be visible beyond an hundred yards.
Im a confirmed old bachelor, a grumpy, surly recluse wedded to my pipe, but for all that I have eyes in my head.
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