reclusive

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   providing privacy or seclusion

   The cops will never find us in this reclusive location.

2. 2
   adj

   withdrawn from society

   They are reclusive people, hardly ever seen in the light of day.

3. 3
   adj

   Of, characterized by, or preferring privacy and isolation; secluded.

   Kim Jong-il, who has died aged 69, was the general secretary of the Workers party of Korea, and head of the military in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). He was one of the most reclusive and widely condemned national leaders of the late 20th and early 21st century, leaving his country diplomatically isolated, economically broken and divided from South Korea.

Etymology

From recluse + -ive.