reclusiveEnglishOxford American Thesaurusreclusive adjective she lived a reclusive life and was hardly ever seen: solitary, secluded, isolated, hermitlike, cloistered, sequestered, withdrawn, retiring, shut away; introverted, unsociable, antisocial, misanthropic; rare seclusive, eremitic, eremitical, hermitic, anchoritic. ▷antonyms gregarious, sociable.