reclusive Definition

recluse
noun

1. Someone who lives alone and has little contact with society.
2. A religious devotee who leads a life of seclusion.

Thesaurus: hermit, monk, anchorite, ascetic, eremite.

adj

1. Said of a place: enclosed; secluded.
2. Said of a person: retiring; solitary.

Derivative: reclusion
noun

Derivative: reclusive
adj

Having or characterized by little contact with society
Thesaurus: withdrawn, isolated, cloistered, secluded, solitary, monastic, hermetical, ascetic, sequestered, retiring; Antonym: convivial, social.

Etymology: 13c: from French reclus, from Latin recludere, from claudere to shut.