| Recluse 1. (n.) A person who lives in seclusion, as a hermit or monk; specifically, one of a class of secluded devotees who live in single cells, usually attached to monasteries. 2. (a.) Shut up; sequestered; retired from the world or from public notice; solitary; living apart; as, a recluse monk or hermit; a recluse life. 3. (n.) The place where a recluse dwells. 4. (v. t.) To shut up; to seclude. Thesaurus Entries Diogenes, Hieronymian, Hieronymite, Timon of Athens, anchoress, anchorite, anchoritic, ascetic, bedridden invalid, cenobite, character, cloistered, cloistered monk, closet cynic, crackpot, crank, desert fathers, desert saints, domestic, eccentric, eremite, eremitic, erratic, flake, freak, hermetic, hermit, hermitess, hermitic, hermitish, homebody, invalid, isolationist, kook, loner, marabout, monk, nonconformist, nun, nut, oddball, outcast, pariah, pillar saint, pillarist, screwball, secluse, seclusionist, seclusive, sequestered, shut in, shut up, shut-in, solitaire, solitary, solitudinarian, stay-at-home, strange duck, stylite, weirdo |