The Meaning of recluse

• (a.) Shut up; sequestered; retired from the world or from public notice; solitary; living apart; as, a recluse monk or hermit; a recluse life.
• (a.) A person who lives in seclusion from intercourse with the world, as a hermit or monk; specifically, one of a class of secluded devotees who live in single cells, usually attached to monasteries.
• (a.) The place where a recluse dwells.
• (v. t.) To shut up; to seclude.

Synonyms

caveman , troglodyte , solitary , anchorite , cave man , solitudinarian , cave dweller , hermit , solitary confinement , withdrawn , sequestered , cloistered , indrawn , reclusive , secluded , unsocial

Antonyms

social

Rhymes

abstruse , abuse , asmus , boose , bruce , caboose , chartreuse , cheuse , coos , cruce , cuisse , damoose , deduce , derousse , deuce , deuss , diffuse , disabuse , disuse , doose , douce , druce , duce , ekeus , excuse , footloose , goose , hoose , induce , introduce , juice , labouisse , lajous , loose , luce , misuse , moose , mousse , noose , nous , obtuse , overproduce , prepuce , preuss , produce , profuse , reduce , reintroduce , reproduce , reuse , ruess , seduce , seuss , sluice , spruce , truce , tyus , use , vanhoose , yous , zeus