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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nonparticipating; avoiding company |
| Synonyms: | alienated, ascetic, asocial, austere, cold, cynical, eremetic, hermitlike, introverted, misanthropic, reclusive, remote, reserved, retiring, solitary, standoffish, uncommunicative, unfriendly, unsociable, withdrawn |
| Notes: | to be antisocial is to be hostile to or disruptive of the established social order, marked by or engaging in behavior that violates accepted mores; while being unsociable means one is not disposed to seek the company of others or is reserved |
| Antonyms: | friendly, fun-loving, participating, sociable |
| Main Entry: | recluse/reclusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hermitlike, unsociable |
| Synonyms: | antisocial, ascetic, cloistered, eremetic, hermetic, isolated, misanthropic, monastic, reserved, retiring, secluded, secluse, seclusive, sequestered, solitary, standoffish, withdrawn |
| Antonyms: | extroverted, friendly, sociable |
| Main Entry: | solitary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alone, single; unsociable |
| Synonyms: | aloof, antisocial, cloistered, companionless, deserted, desolate, distant, eremetic, forsaken, friendless, hermitical, hidden, individual, introverted, isolated, lone, lonely, lonesome, lorn, misanthropic, offish, only, out-of-the-way, particular, reclusive, remote, reserved, retired, secluded, separate, sequestered, singular, sole, solo, stag, standoffish, unaccompanied, unapproachable, unattended, uncompanionable, unfrequented, unique, unsocial, withdrawn |
| Antonyms: | accompanied, combined, sociable, together |
| Main Entry: | standoffish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cold, distant |
| Synonyms: | aloof, antisocial, cool, eremitic, haughty, indifferent, misanthropic, reclusive, remote, reserved, solitary, unapproachable, uncompanionable, unsociable, withdrawn |
| Antonyms: | friendly, sociable, warm |
| Main Entry: | taciturn |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | uncommunicative |
| Synonyms: | aloof, antisocial, brooding, clammed up, close, close-mouthed, cold, curt, distant, dour, dried-up, dumb, laconic, mum, mute, quiet, reserved, reticent, sententious, silent, sparing, speechless, tight-lipped, unexpressive, unforthcoming, withdrawn |
| Antonyms: | communicative, fluent, talkative, wordy |
| Main Entry: | thoughtless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inconsiderate |
| Synonyms: | antisocial, apathetic, asocial, blind, boorish, brash, deaf, discourteous, egocentric, hasty, heedless, hot-headed, impolite, inattentive, incautious, indelicate, indifferent, indiscreet, insensitive, listless, madcap, neglectful, negligent, primitive, rash, reckless, rude, self-centered, selfish, sharp, short, tactless, uncaring, unceremonious, unconcerned, undiplomatic, ungracious, unheeding, unkind, unmindful, unrefined |
| Antonyms: | considerate, kind, thinking, thoughtful, unselfish |
| Main Entry: | unfriendly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nasty, hostile |
| Synonyms: | acrimonious, against, alien, aloof, antagonistic, antisocial, censorious, chilly, cold, combative, competitive, conflicting, contrary, disaffected, disagreeable, distant, estranged, grouchy, grudging, gruff, hateful, ill-disposed, inauspicious, inhospitable, inimical, malicious, malignant, misanthropic, not on speaking terms, opposed, opposite, quarrelsome, sour, spiteful, surly, uncharitable, uncongenial, unfavorable, unneighborly, unpropitious, unsociable, vengeful, warlike |
| Antonyms: | approachable, friendly, kind, nice, sociable |
| Main Entry: | reclusive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unsociable |
| Synonyms: | antisocial, ascetic, cloistered, eremitic, hermetic, hermit-like, isolated, misanthropic, monastic, recluse, reserved, retiring, secluded, secluse, seclusive, sequestered, solitary, standoffish, withdrawn |
| Antonyms: | gregarious, sociable |
| Main Entry: | incommunicable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | taciturn |
| Synonyms: | aloof, antisocial, brooding, clammed up, close, close-mouthed, cold, curt, distant, dour, dried-up, dumb, incommunicative, laconic, mum, mute, quiet, reserved, reticent, sententious, silent, sparing, speechless, tight-lipped, tightlipped, uncommunicable, uncommunicative, unexpressive, unforthcoming, withdrawn |
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