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hermitical
adjective as in solitary
Strong matches
Weak matches
- aloof
- antisocial
- cloistered
- companionless
- deserted
- desolate
- distant
- eremetic
- forsaken
- friendless
- hidden
- introverted
- isolated
- lonesome
- lorn
- misanthropic
- offish
- only
- out-of-the-way
- reclusive
- reserved
- retired
- secluded
- sequestered
- standoffish
- unaccompanied
- unapproachable
- unattended
- uncompanionable
- unfrequented
- unique
- unsocial
- withdrawn
Example Sentences
She, too, had no doubt been terrified into that hermitical retirement—among the señoritas now universal.
Contrast his public services with his public and private vices, and see what he is—the despised of the whole world, eking out a miserable existence in hermitical seclusion with a woman of ill-fame.
A somewhat shy and hermitical being we take him to be, and more a student of his own heart than of men.
He took with him there a few monks and built a resplendent monastery; he remained in that place a year and six months more leading a hermitical life.
A hundred years of expansion in the surrounding land had acted inversely with the little hamlet, and had pinched it into a hermitical isolation.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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