cliquey
2
7.7
- adjective
- /ˈklɪki/
- Informal
:
exclusivo
- Non-denominational churches tend to be huge and impersonal or as cliquey as any college sorority.
Examples
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Intellectuals though I count myself among them... are very cliquey if you're not on their level.
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And comics are cliquey enough as it is without enabling that kind of groupthink.
Blog text (13) -
Why does it always have to be so cliquey here?
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This community is damn cliquey, to the point that it's getting sickening.
Blog text (32) -
Not that I'm scared of being murdered, just that the thought that so many folks hate me now, and not just the cliquey folks at my college, but folks all over the Internet, is enough to make me tremble slightly.
Blog text (31) -
If Old Digg was once plagued by cliquey power users, the new wave is bathed in anonymity.
Blog text (3) -
As usual, the other girls have gone to the diner across the street where the air is on, but Caitlin and I are in the hot seat, ordered to stay close by; besides, Philidance is pretty cliquey and Caitlin doesn't get along with people so well.
Fiction book (1993) -
The camp was anything but cliquey; though I was terrified that in-school norms would apply, the four boys and 10 girls, ages 12-16, achieved not only parity but also friendship.
Blog text (27) -
If anything, I’d call her deep waters, and she was alone in that camp because the counselors are mostly kids who used to be campers here: rich, cliquey kids from the Ivy Leagues.
Fiction book (1998) -
At her new school, she felt the groups were very cliquey and hard to join.
Synonyms
399
5.4
Only for one person, group, or purpose and not shared
2
7.5
A place or group that is friendly to members but keeps new people out
1
8.2
Forming small groups that make other people feel unwelcome
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8.2
Prefers to be with a small close group and excludes other people
Unfriendly and not welcoming to people outside a small group
Antonyms
How Exclusive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Cliquey comes from the word clique, which means 'small, closed group'. A helpful way to remember it is to imagine people who click together and leave others out, so a cliquey place or group is hard to join.