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n. confinement of a prisoner in isolation from other prisoners; "he was held in solitary"

hermit, recluse, solitary, solitudinarian, troglodyte

n. one who lives in solitude

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adj. being the only one; single and isolated from others; "the lone doctor in the entire county"; "a lonesome pine"; "an only child"; "the sole heir"; "the sole example"; "a solitary instance of cowardice"; "a solitary speck in the sky"

solitary, eremitic

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

nongregarious, nonsocial, solitary

adj. of plants and animals; not growing or living in groups or colonies; "solitary bees"

lonely, solitary, unfrequented

adj. devoid of creatures; "a lonely crossroads"; "a solitary retreat"; "a trail leading to an unfrequented lake"

abstainer, ascetic

n. someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline

celibate

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

eremite

n. a Christian recluse

anchorite, hermit

n. one retired from society for religious reasons

Monk, Thelonious Monk, Thelonious Sphere Monk

n. United States jazz pianist who was one of the founders of the bebop style (1917-1982)

abbot, archimandrite

n. the superior of an abbey of monks

friar, mendicant

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

introvert

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

individual, case-by-case, item-by-item

adj. separate and distinct from others of the same kind; "mark the individual pages"; "on a case-by-case basis"

detached, separated

adj. no longer connected or joined; "a detached part"; "on one side of the island was a hugh rock, almost detached"; "the separated spacecraft will return to their home bases"

cloistered, reclusive, secluded, sequestered

adj. providing privacy or seclusion; "the cloistered academic world of books"; "sat close together in the sequestered pergola"; "sitting under the reclusive calm of a shade tree"; "a secluded romantic spot"

azygous, azygos

adj. occurring singly; not one of a pair; "the azygous muscle of the uvula"

one

adj. indefinite in time or position; "he will come one day"; "one place or another"

one-man, one-person, one-woman

adj. designed for or restricted to a single person: "a one-man show"; "a one-person tent"

sui generis

adj. constituting a class of its own; unique; "a history book sui generis"; "sui generis works like Mary Chestnut's Civil War diary"

unary

adj. consisting of or involving a single element or component; "in a unary operation in a mathematical system one element is used to yield a single result"

uninominal, one-member

adj. based on the system of having only one member from each district (as of a legislature); "a uninominal electoral system"

lone(a), lonesome(a), only(a), sole(a), solitary(a)

adj. being the only one; single and isolated from others; "the lone doctor in the entire county"; "a lonesome pine"; "an only child"; "the sole heir"; "the sole example"; "a solitary instance of cowardice"; "a solitary speck in the sky"

antisocial, asocial

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"

asocial

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

recluse, reclusive, withdrawn

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

outback(a), remote

adj. inaccessible and sparsely populated;

deserted

adj. remote from civilization; "the victim was lured to a deserted spot"

inconvenient

adj. not suited to your comfort, purpose or needs; "it is inconvenient not to have a telephone in the kitchen"; "the back hall is an inconvenient place for the telephone"

pathless, roadless, trackless, untracked, untrod, untrodden

adj. lacking pathways; "trackless wilderness"; "roadless areas"

unapproachable, unreachable, unreached, out of reach(p)

adj. inaccessibly located or situated; "an unapproachable chalet high in the mountains"; "an unreachable canyon"; "the unreachable stars"

un-come-at-able, un-get-at-able, ungetatable

adj. difficult to reach or attain

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