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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not disposed to seek the company of others; not sociable.
- adjective Not conducive to social exchange.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not sociable, in any sense.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not sociable; not inclined to society; averse to companionship or conversation; solitary; reserved.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective not needing the
company of others - adjective not
congenial orcompatible - adjective
unfriendly
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not inclined to society or companionship
Etymologies
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Examples
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Nevertheless, the Massachusetts born Bacon was once described as unsociable, free of vice, skeptical in his spiritual thoughts and critical of preachers and their teachings.
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Nevertheless, the Massachusetts born Bacon was once described as unsociable, free of vice, skeptical in his spiritual thoughts and critical of preachers and their teachings.
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Nevertheless, the Massachusetts born Bacon was once described as unsociable, free of vice, skeptical in his spiritual thoughts and critical of preachers and their teachings.
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Nevertheless, the Massachusetts born Bacon was once described as unsociable, free of vice, skeptical in his spiritual thoughts and critical of preachers and their teachings.
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Nevertheless, the Massachusetts born Bacon was once described as unsociable, free of vice, skeptical in his spiritual thoughts and critical of preachers and their teachings.
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Nevertheless, the Massachusetts born Bacon was once described as unsociable, free of vice, skeptical in his spiritual thoughts and critical of preachers and their teachings.
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And lastly - and most importantly - while Arnie's Place had a brief-but-unforgettable ban on fighting games, claiming they were "unsociable," Sike's always had the latest versions of Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter.
The Dark Side Of Arcading silmaril 2005
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But because Miss Lucinda Manners was reserved and "unsociable," as the neighbors pronounced her, I did not, therefore, mean to imply that she was inhuman.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Various
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If I failed in any measure in this respect, they reproached me with being "unsociable," and said;
Cape Cod Folks Sarah P. McLean Greene 1895
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Seems kind of unsociable, muffling themselves up behind these hedgerows!
Flaming June George de Horne Vaizey 1887
Related Words
synonyms (62)
Words with the same meaning
- Timonistic
- aloof
- antisocial
- autistic
- bashful
- chill
- chilly
- close
- cold
- cool
- cynical
- disaccordant
- disinclined to communicate
- dissociable
- distant
- frosty
- icy
- incompatible
- inhospitable
- inimical
- insociable
- insocial
- man-hating
- meaningless
- misogynous
- mopey
- mopish
- morose
- nongregarious
- offish
- reserved
- retiring
- secretive
- segregative
- self-contained
- self-sufficient
- sexist
- shut-in
- shy
- snug
- socially incompatible
- solitary
- sour
- standoff
- standoffish
- strained
- sullen
- tense
- timid
- unamiable
- unamicable
- unclubbable
- uncommunicative
- uncompanionable
- uncongenial
- unconversable
- uncordial
- unfriendly
- ungenial
- unharmonious
- unsocial
- woman-hating
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