0 preferring to be alone, away from other people: --
He was haughty and seclusive.
He became seclusive and suspicious.
He may of course be seclusive and apt to feel the constraints of contact with others as wearying and unsatisfactory; he is not easily bored or made restless.
He is very seclusive, keeping himself aloof from the other patients, as he considers himself very much their superior.
He was not seclusive, seeming to enjoy the company of other children, but rarely made any efforts to seek them out.
Maturing children are touchy, sensitive, self-conscious, modest, seclusive.
These seclusive habits, together with strongly drawn party lines, destroyed to a degree that social interchange which a more general intercourse would naturally have engendered.
But is it true that literature is an exclusive, a seclusive thing?
During a clear spell, the patient was quiet, reserved, taciturn, a little ill-tempered and seclusive, occasionally writing his wife a rather empty letter.
