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exclusive
English
Etymology
From Latin excl?s?vus, from excludere (“to shut out, exclude”), from ex- (“out”) + variant form of verb claudere (“to close, shut”).
Pronunciation
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k?sklu.s?v/, /?k?sklu.z?v/
- Hyphenation: ex?clu?sive
Adjective
exclusive (comparative more exclusive, superlative most exclusive)
- (literally) Excluding items or members that do not meet certain conditions.
- (figuratively) Referring to a membership organisation, service or product: of high quality and/or renown, for superior members only. A snobbish usage, suggesting that members who do not meet requirements, which may be financial, of celebrity, religion, skin colour etc., are excluded.
- Exclusive clubs tend to serve exclusive brands of food and drinks, in the same exorbitant price range, such as the 'finest' French châteaux.
- Exclusionary.
- Whole, undivided, entire.
- The teacher's pet commands the teacher's exclusive attention.
- (linguistics) Of or relating to the first-person plural pronoun when excluding the person being addressed.
- The pronoun in "We're going to a party later, but you aren't invited" is an exclusive "we".
- (of two people in a romantic or sexual relationship) Having a romantic or sexual relationship with one another, to the exclusion of others.
- They decided to no longer be exclusive.
Antonyms
- inclusive
- non-exclusive
Derived terms
Related terms
- excludent (discrimination)
Translations
Noun
exclusive (plural exclusives)
- Information (or an artefact) that is granted or obtained exclusively.
- The editor agreed to keep a lid on a potentially disastrous political scoop in exchange for an exclusive of a happier nature.
- A member of a group who exclude others from their society.
- (grammar) A word or phrase that restricts something, such as only, solely, or simply.
Translations
Further reading
- exclusive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- exclusive in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
French
Adjective
exclusive
- feminine singular of exclusif
Latin
Adjective
excl?s?ve
- vocative masculine singular of excl?s?vus
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snobbish
English
Etymology
snob +? -ish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sn?b??/
Adjective
snobbish (comparative more snobbish, superlative most snobbish)
- Having the property of being a snob; arrogant and pretentious; smugly superior or dismissive of perceived inferiors.
- c.1948, George Orwell, Such, Such Were the Joys
- St Cyprian's was an expensive and snobbish school which was in process of becoming more snobbish, and, I imagine, more expensive.
- c.1948, George Orwell, Such, Such Were the Joys
Synonyms
- cliquish
Translations
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