adjective
1. providing privacy or seclusion
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the cloistered academic world of books
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sat close together in the sequestered pergola
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sitting under the reclusive calm of a shade tree
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a secluded romantic spot
• Syn: ↑cloistered, ↑secluded, ↑sequestered
• Similar to: ↑private
• Derivationally related forms: ↑reclusiveness
2. withdrawn from society; seeking solitude
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lived an unsocial reclusive life
• Similar to: ↑unsocial
• Derivationally related forms: ↑withdrawnness (for: ↑withdrawn), ↑reclusiveness, ↑recluse (for: ↑recluse)
Useful english dictionary. 2012.