Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Reclusive \Re*clu"sive\, a.
   Affording retirement from society. ``Some reclusive and
   religious life.'' --Shak.

Source : WordNet®

reclusive
     adj 1: withdrawn from society; seeking solitude; "lived an unsocial
            reclusive life" [syn: {recluse}, {withdrawn}]
     2: 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" [syn: {cloistered}, {secluded},
         {sequestered}]