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Adjective: reclusive  ri'kloo-siv
  1. Keeping away from society; seeking solitude
    "lived an unsocial reclusive life";
    - recluse, withdrawn
     
  2. Providing privacy or seclusion
    "sitting under the reclusive calm of a shade tree";
    - cloistered, secluded, sequestered

See also: private, unsocial

Encyclopedia: Reclusive

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