different between reclusive vs recluse

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???klu?s?v/

Adjective

reclusive (comparative more reclusive, superlative most reclusive)

1. Of, characterized by, or preferring privacy and isolation; secluded.
   • And if it sort not well, you may conceal her,

     As best befits her wounded reputation,

     In some reclusive and religious life,

     Out of all eyes, tongues, minds and injuries.

Synonyms

• hermit-like
• withdrawn

Related terms

• recluse
• reclusively
• reclusiveness

Translations

English

Etymology

From Old French reclus, past participle of reclure, from Latin recl?dere, present active infinitive of recl?d? (“I disclose, I open”), from re- + claud? (“close”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???klu?s/, /???klu?s/
• Rhymes: -u?s

Adjective

recluse (comparative more recluse, superlative most recluse)

1. (now rare) sequestered; secluded, isolated
   • J. Philips

     In meditation deep, recluse / From human converse.

2. (now rare) hidden, secret

Synonyms

• reclusive

Noun

recluse (plural recluses)

1. a person who lives in self-imposed isolation or seclusion from the world, especially for religious purposes; a hermit
   • 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xv:

     The recluse in the fable kept a cat to keep off the rats, and then a cow to feed the cat with milk, and a man to keep the cow and so on. My ambitions also grew like the family of the recluse.

   Synonyms: anchorite, eremite, hermit

2. (obsolete) the place where a recluse dwells; a place of isolation or seclusion

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Foxe to this entry?)

3. (US) a brown recluse spider

See also Thesaurus:recluse

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

recluse (third-person singular simple present recluses, present participle reclusing, simple past and past participle reclused)

1. (obsolete) to shut; to seclude

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.klyz/
• Homophone: recluses

Adjective

recluse

1. feminine singular of reclus

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uze

Adjective

recluse

1. feminine plural of recluso

Noun

recluse f

1. plural of reclusa

Verb 1

recluse

1. feminine plural of the past participle of recludere

Verb 2

recluse

1. third-person singular past historic of recludere

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /re?klu?.se/, [r??k??u?s??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /re?klu.se/, [r??klu?s??]

Participle

recl?se

1. vocative masculine singular of recl?sus