(a.) Shut up; sequestered; retired from the world or from public notice; solitary; living apart; as, a recluse monk or hermit; a recluse life.
(a.) 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.
(a.) The place where a recluse dwells.
(v. t.) To shut up; to seclude.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was reclusive, I know that, and he was often given a hard time for it.
(2) Two decades after Donna Tartt soared to literary stardom with her debut The Secret History, the reclusive author is set to release her third novel this autumn.
(3) Unless psychic rehabilitation is undertaken in tandem with physical rehabilitation, a spinal cord-injured patient is likely to become an unhappy social recluse or denizen of a chronic care facility, rather than an independent productive member of his community.
(4) Christoph Schäublin said it had “triggered no feelings of triumph” that the of the Kunstmuseum Bern was to take on the artworks that were recently discovered in the home of German recluse Cornelius Gurlitt.
(5) In the first episode, 24-year-old Lauren, whose hirsutism (due to polycystic ovary syndrome) has rendered her a virtual recluse, sees her symptoms alleviated, and her confidence so improved that she puts on a swimsuit and visits her local pool.
(6) He is a man who eschews personal publicity and interviews, prompting him to be once described as Britain's answer to the late Howard Hughes, though his love of a night out proves he is no recluse.
(7) The French love Malick's artistry and mystery and he continued to play the recluse by not showing up for his press conference or red carpet, although I'm told he has been here, staying at the famed Colombe d'Or in St-Paul-de-Vence and that he did sneak in to watch at least some of his own film's premiere.
(8) Negotiations were revived after Dmitry Medvedev, the former president, who is now prime minister, met North Korea's leader Kim Jong-il, father of Kim Jong-un, in Siberia last summer on one of the reclusive leader's last foreign trips.
(9) The Trump administration has been pressing China aggressively to rein in its reclusive neighbour, warning all options are on the table if North Korea persists with its weapons programmes.
(10) The model is then subjected to the criticism that it is grotesque to ignore questions relating to the value of, for example, a productive mother over against an aged recluse, and to treat them as having equal rights to access.
(11) Unlike the brown recluse spider, wolf spider envenomation seldom causes cutaneous necrosis or systemic symptoms.
(12) The regime in Eritrea is, in short, a secretive, reclusive, authoritarian tyranny, which is ruthlessly controlled by president Afewerki.
(13) One or two days before the molt, animals lower activity and dominance and feeding levels, exhibit reclusive behavior, and sometimes seal the cavity entrance.
(14) Cases reported totaled 414 for Rocky Mountain spotted fever, 334 for Lyme disease, 143 black widow and 478 brown recluse spider bites and 4,975 fire ant stings.
(15) Paul Kennedy, representing Nimmo, described his client as of previous good character, adding: "He is a social recluse, that is exactly what he is really, he rarely leaves the house but to empty the bins.
(16) According to testimonies from workers and defectors, labourers from the reclusive state said they receive almost no salaries in person while in the Gulf emirate during the three years they typically spend there.
(17) Guests on the night included the reclusive mining magnate and media player Gina Rinehart and media baron Rupert Murdoch, and Abbott was introduced on the occasion by influential Melbourne columnist and broadcaster Andrew Bolt.
(18) • Doubles from €72 B&B, +351 282 624 212, memmohotels.com 12 Seaside riad , Olhão Facebook Twitter Pinterest A leading (if reclusive) Portuguese architect and his family run Convento , a very sexy riad-style, nine-bedroom ex-convent house hidden in the medina of this charming, salty fishing town.
(19) I know nothing at all about him.” Because Mair was so reclusive, few people do.
(20) "Someone called me the Howard Hughes of childcare because I'm so reclusive," she says.
Solitary
Definition:
(a.) Living or being by one's self; having no companion present; being without associates; single; alone; lonely.
(a.) Performed, passed, or endured alone; as, a solitary journey; a solitary life.
(a.) ot much visited or frequented remote from society; retired; lonely; as, a solitary residence or place.
(a.) Not inhabited or occupied; without signs of inhabitants or occupation; desolate; deserted; silent; still; hence, gloomy; dismal; as, the solitary desert.
(a.) Single; individual; sole; as, a solitary instance of vengeance; a solitary example.
(a.) Not associated with others of the same kind.
(n.) One who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchoret; a hermit; a recluse.
Example Sentences:
(1) The masses were solitary and located in the retroperitoneum (five cases), mediastinum (one case), and axilla (one case).
(2) No HRP-labeled axons were found in the facial and solitary nuclei and the cerebellum.
(3) No substance P binding sites were present in the central region of the parvocellular subdivision or the solitary tract.
(4) In solitary ulcers the ratio male: female was 1.1:1, while it was 2.2:1 in the cases in which a duodenal ulcer had been demonstrated, earlier or simultaneously with the gastric ulcer.
(5) Three of these patients, who had a solitary stone could successfully be treated by ESWL as monotherapy.
(6) He was held there for another eight months in conditions that aroused widespread condemnation , including being held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day and being made to strip naked at night.
(7) Twenty-six of 41 patients with solitary liver cysts, some of them with ventriculation, received surgical treatment.
(8) Solitary diverticula were seen in three patients and in the fourth case there were three diverticula.
(9) The radiological differential diagnosis includes neuroblastoma, leukaemic infiltration, lymphoma, histiocytosis X, solitary and multifocal osteosarcoma and other deposits.
(10) Thus the solitary experience seems to be more influenced by disturbed individual dynamics, but in other cases social factors seem to be crucial.
(11) The prison suicide rate, at 120 deaths per 100,000 people, is about 10 times higher than the rate in the general population.” The report calls for a recently revised incentives and earned privileges regime to be scrapped and for an undertaking that prisoners with mental health problems or at known risk of suicide should never be placed in solitary.
(12) During the autopsy of a 24 year old woman, who died of cardiorespiratory insufficiency a large solitary tumour was found extending into the right ventricle of the heart and obstructing the pulmonary valve subtotally.
(13) Eighteen patients received implants for recurrent malignant astrocytoma (Group II) and 3 for recurrent solitary cerebral metastasis from adenocarcinoma of the lung (Group III).
(14) For whites, in addition to health and solitary activities, interaction with family and sex were also found to be significant.
(15) The adaptive value of sound signal characteristics for transmission in the underground tunnel ecotope was tested using tunnels of the solitary territorial subterranean mole rats.
(16) These results suggest distinct operating mechanisms of fast and slow rhythms in the solitary complex in vitro.
(17) With one probable exception all of the tumours were solitary.
(18) Government officials drew the public’s ire after charging Manning with three counts of misconduct following the suicide attempt, including two which carried possible penalties of indefinite solitary confinement.
(19) Solitary abnormalities on bone scan or chest film serve as an excellent examples of this dilemma.
(20) Membrane potential trajectories of 68 bulbar respiratory neurones from the peri-solitary and peri-ambigual areas of the brain-stem were recorded in anaesthetized cats to explore the synaptic influences of post-inspiratory neurones upon the medullary inspiratory network.