n. one who lives in solitude

adj. withdrawn from society; seeking solitude; "lived an unsocial reclusive life"

n. someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline

n. an unmarried person who has taken a religious vow of chastity

n. a Christian recluse

n. one retired from society for religious reasons

n. a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work

n. the superior of an abbey of monks

n. a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms

n. (psychology) a person who tends to shrink from social contacts and to become preoccupied with their own thoughts

adj. not inclined to society or companionship; "an unsociable nature...shy and reserved"; "generally unsociable except with intimate friends"; "unsociable behavior"; "an unsociable neighborhood"

adj. not disposed to friendship or friendliness; "an unfriendly coldness of manner"; "an unfriendly action to take"

adj. remote in manner; "stood apart with aloof dignity"; "a distant smile"; "he was upstage with strangers"

adj. "relations were cool and polite"

adj. having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer

adj. characterized by or preferring solitude; "a lone wolf"; "a lonely existence"; "a man of a solitary disposition"; " a solitary walk"

adj. hostile to or disruptive of normal standards of social behavior; "criminal behavior or conduct that violates the rights of other individuals is antisocial"; "crimes...and other asocial behavior"; "an antisocial deed"

adj. given to avoiding association with others; "bears are asocial secretive animals"; "are you asocial or do you just enjoy living in the Antarctic?"

adj. characterized by ascetic solitude; "the eremitic element in the life of a religious colony"; "his hermitic existence"