recluse
Shuns all company
A recluse is someone who lives in seclusion, avoiding contact with others.
The word suggests deliberate withdrawal from society rather than mere shyness: After his wife died, he became a recluse.
A recluse may be eccentric, scholarly, or simply private.
The adjective reclusive describes the tendency: She led a reclusive life in the mountains.
Person choosing total seclusion
- oddballEccentric individual
- misfitOne who doesn't fit in
- outsiderOne excluded from group
- outcastShunned, rejected person
eccentric · Howard Hughes · shut-in · mysterious · enigmatic · unknown · secretive · hidden
Person choosing total seclusion
- isolationComplete separation from others
- withdrawalAct of taking away
- retreatSanctuary or withdrawal
- hermitageSecluded religious dwelling
solitary · sequestered · cloistered · aloneness · quietude · sanctuary · hideaway · seclusive
Reserved and retiring
- reservedRestrained in manner
- reticentDisinclined to speak freely
- timidLacking courage or confidence
- self-containedWhole without external parts
introspective · uncommunicative · quiet · aloof · loner · antisocial · unsociable · taciturn
hermit
Person choosing total seclusion
outcast · eccentric · Howard Hughes · shut-in · mysterious · enigmatic · unknown · secretive · hidden · invisible
hermit
Person choosing total seclusion
- isolationComplete separation from others
- withdrawalAct of taking away
- retreatSanctuary or withdrawal
hermitage · solitary · sequestered · cloistered · aloneness · quietude · sanctuary · hideaway · seclusive · removed
shy
Reserved and retiring
self-contained · introspective · uncommunicative · quiet · aloof · loner · antisocial · unsociable · taciturn · hermitic
venomous
Producing injected toxins
- fiddlebackViolin-shaped pattern or spider
- bitePierce with teeth
- necroticOf dying tissue
- Christian Asceticshermit, anchorite, anchoress, eremite, cenobite
- Orthodox Monksabbot, abbots, novice, novices, cenobite
- spidersspiders, huntsman, tarantula, spider silk, spider webs
- introversionintroversion, solitude, alone time, isolation, loner
- isolationloneliness, quarantine, lockdown, solitude, solitary
- lonelinessalone, loneliness, lonely, solitude, isolation
reclusesocialite
Prominent figure in fashionable circles
social butterfly · extrovert · socializer · party animal · people person
reclusepublic figure
Prominent, widely recognized person
celebrity · influencer · media personality · attention seeker · exhibitionist
- brown recluseVenomous North American spider
- brown recluse spiderVenomous North American arachnid
- recluse spiderSecretive venomous arachnid species
- brown recluse biteVenomous arachnid puncture wound
preclude, reclusive, recluses, reclusion, reclusively, reclusiveness, recluseness, recluse spider