Reclusive
adjective
Someone who stays away from people and likes to be alone.
After his wife's death, he became more and more reclusive.
Often appears as...
- reclusive life
- reclusive nature
adjective
Someone who stays away from people and likes to be alone.
After his wife's death, he became more and more reclusive.
Often appears as...
- reclusive life
- reclusive nature
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Pro Tip 1/3Avoiding Others
Describes a choice to minimize social contact or interactions intentionally, not by shyness.
He led a reclusive life, preferring the company of books over people.
Pro Tip 2/3Private Personality
Highlights a person's inherent nature to seek solitude, which is part of their character.
Mara's reclusive nature became evident when she skipped the party.
Pro Tip 3/3Chosen Solitude
Implies a conscious decision to live alone, apart from being a lifestyle choice or necessity.
After years in the spotlight, the celebrity embraced a reclusive lifestyle.
Pro Tip 1/3Avoiding Others
Describes a choice to minimize social contact or interactions intentionally, not by shyness.
He led a reclusive life, preferring the company of books over people.
Pro Tip 2/3Private Personality
Highlights a person's inherent nature to seek solitude, which is part of their character.
Mara's reclusive nature became evident when she skipped the party.
Pro Tip 3/3Chosen Solitude
Implies a conscious decision to live alone, apart from being a lifestyle choice or necessity.
After years in the spotlight, the celebrity embraced a reclusive lifestyle.
Pro Tip 1/3Avoiding Others
Describes a choice to minimize social contact or interactions intentionally, not by shyness.
He led a reclusive life, preferring the company of books over people.
Pro Tip 2/3Private Personality
Highlights a person's inherent nature to seek solitude, which is part of their character.
Mara's reclusive nature became evident when she skipped the party.
Pro Tip 3/3Chosen Solitude
Implies a conscious decision to live alone, apart from being a lifestyle choice or necessity.
After years in the spotlight, the celebrity embraced a reclusive lifestyle.
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Safari Live - Day 276 PIPE...
guys tricky they saw understudied but reckoned to be about twenty years so I'm anywhere between sort of eighteen and twenty years would be about the right lifespan for these guys but like I say because they're so shy and so reclusive there's so little that really known about penguins and there's only a handful of people that have actually
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How bacteria "talk" -...
do or all the bad things that bacteria do the question we had is how could they do anything at all I mean they're incredibly small you have to have a microscope to see one they live this soaring sort of boring life where they grow and divide and they've always been to consider to be these a social reclusive organisms and so it seemed to
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Bonnie Bassler: The...
You have to have a microscope to see one. They live this sort of boring life where they grow and divide, and they've always been considered to be these asocial, reclusive organisms. And so it seemed to us that they're just too small to have an impact on the environment if they simply act as individuals.
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Are we born to run? PIPE...
You show me a creature with webbed feet and gills; somehow water's involved. Someone with that kind of heart, there's some kind of connection there. And the answer to it, I think, can be found down in the Copper Canyons of Mexico, where there's a reclusive tribe, called the Tarahumara Indians.
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How do animals...
However, we get clues from observing how animals behave. Wild, hurt animals are known to nurse their wounds, make noises to show their distress, and become reclusive. In the lab, scientists have discovered that animals like chickens and rats
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Borneo: Paradise Under...
ember the exactly this shot when I took this shot it was like this saved the day and the month of the year it was I was so happy it's not a phenomenal picture but given that this is such a very very reclusive and hard take the photograph I
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Seal Sends Text Messages...
normally a seals mom would show her the ropes in Victoria's case chinny take on the job because monk seals are so reclusive biologists know little about how Co mothers raise their pups thanks to remote cameras they're about to learn
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The greatest mathematicia...
And the group’s members took their prank as seriously as their work. Their invented mathematician claimed to be a reclusive Russian genius who would only meet with his selected collaborators.
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A vision for the future...
or fleeing the violence and pillage of war. So I engaged in a series of diplomatic activities right across the subregion and convinced the reclusive rebel leader to initiate peace talks
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Elusive Giant Panda PIPE...
okay we've saved the best for last shots of the reclusive giant panda are rare but the rarest of the rare are these shots a mother in her den
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Safari Live - Day 276 PIPE...
guys tricky they saw understudied but reckoned to be about twenty years so I'm anywhere between sort of eighteen and twenty years would be about the right lifespan for these guys but like I say because they're so shy and so reclusive there's so little that really known about penguins and there's only a handful of people that have actually
Video examples
How bacteria "talk" -...
do or all the bad things that bacteria do the question we had is how could they do anything at all I mean they're incredibly small you have to have a microscope to see one they live this soaring sort of boring life where they grow and divide and they've always been to consider to be these a social reclusive organisms and so it seemed to
Video examples
Bonnie Bassler: The...
You have to have a microscope to see one. They live this sort of boring life where they grow and divide, and they've always been considered to be these asocial, reclusive organisms. And so it seemed to us that they're just too small to have an impact on the environment if they simply act as individuals.
Video examples
Are we born to run? PIPE...
You show me a creature with webbed feet and gills; somehow water's involved. Someone with that kind of heart, there's some kind of connection there. And the answer to it, I think, can be found down in the Copper Canyons of Mexico, where there's a reclusive tribe, called the Tarahumara Indians.
Video examples
How do animals...
However, we get clues from observing how animals behave. Wild, hurt animals are known to nurse their wounds, make noises to show their distress, and become reclusive. In the lab, scientists have discovered that animals like chickens and rats
Video examples
Borneo: Paradise Under...
ember the exactly this shot when I took this shot it was like this saved the day and the month of the year it was I was so happy it's not a phenomenal picture but given that this is such a very very reclusive and hard take the photograph I
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Seal Sends Text Messages...
normally a seals mom would show her the ropes in Victoria's case chinny take on the job because monk seals are so reclusive biologists know little about how Co mothers raise their pups thanks to remote cameras they're about to learn
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The greatest mathematicia...
And the group’s members took their prank as seriously as their work. Their invented mathematician claimed to be a reclusive Russian genius who would only meet with his selected collaborators.
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A vision for the future...
or fleeing the violence and pillage of war. So I engaged in a series of diplomatic activities right across the subregion and convinced the reclusive rebel leader to initiate peace talks
Video examples
Elusive Giant Panda PIPE...
okay we've saved the best for last shots of the reclusive giant panda are rare but the rarest of the rare are these shots a mother in her den
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Ethan Canin
American Author
One of my favorite ways to find fictional inspiration, by the way, is to browse historical timelines. I also like world atlases - any country with a squiggly coastline seems to inspire me, as do visual dictionaries, those reclusive creatures of the reference shelf.
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Sandra Cisneros
American Author
I'm afraid I'm still trying to find that balance. Especially now that everyone wants a piece of me. I find that I have to become more and more reclusive, and pick and choose when I am public and when I am private.
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Gus Van Sant
American Director
One of the things that is devastating is I realise I haven't been living a different life than when I was, like, 12. I'm shocked at how reclusive I've been since then. I was unaware of it until recently.
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Kate Bush
British Musician
I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world.
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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
American Playwright
I actually don't read the press. All the writers I admire were significantly reclusive, and I'm still trying to figure out how they got to a place where they didn't have to talk to press.
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John Searles
American Writer
My personality has two sides: a very social side and a reclusive side. I love writing fiction, although I can't imagine ever being locked up in a room writing all the time.
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Tom Junod
American Journalist
Bob Dylan is either the most public private man in the world or the most private public one. He has a reputation for being silent and reclusive; he is neither.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
American Artist
I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.
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Mika
British Musician
Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.
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Enya
Irish Musician
I am not reclusive. I just have a private life.
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Ethan Canin
American Author
One of my favorite ways to find fictional inspiration, by the way, is to browse historical timelines. I also like world atlases - any country with a squiggly coastline seems to inspire me, as do visual dictionaries, those reclusive creatures of the reference shelf.
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Sandra Cisneros
American Author
I'm afraid I'm still trying to find that balance. Especially now that everyone wants a piece of me. I find that I have to become more and more reclusive, and pick and choose when I am public and when I am private.
Quote examples
Gus Van Sant
American Director
One of the things that is devastating is I realise I haven't been living a different life than when I was, like, 12. I'm shocked at how reclusive I've been since then. I was unaware of it until recently.
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Kate Bush
British Musician
I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating that people think that I'm some kind of weirdo reclusive that never comes out into the world.
Quote examples
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
American Playwright
I actually don't read the press. All the writers I admire were significantly reclusive, and I'm still trying to figure out how they got to a place where they didn't have to talk to press.
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John Searles
American Writer
My personality has two sides: a very social side and a reclusive side. I love writing fiction, although I can't imagine ever being locked up in a room writing all the time.
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Tom Junod
American Journalist
Bob Dylan is either the most public private man in the world or the most private public one. He has a reputation for being silent and reclusive; he is neither.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
American Artist
I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.
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Mika
British Musician
Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.
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Enya
Irish Musician
I am not reclusive. I just have a private life.
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