unsocial
1
4.8
- adjective
- /ʌnˈsoʊʃəl/
:
antisocial
- His unsocial behavior made it difficult for him to connect with his classmates.
- gloomy and unsocial
- ferocious, gloomy, and unsocial
Examples
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I thought you'd gone all civilized and unsocial on us.
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While most people enjoy parties, she found them overwhelming and preferred her unsocial routines.
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I became unsocial.
Blog text (1) -
But reading, while more interactive than TV (because it requires the reader's imagination to function), is still a fairly unsocial medium.
Blog text (28) -
What could result is an administrative leadership that is, at base, unthinking, unsocial, and lacking in compassion, no matter what its original motivation may have been.
Academic text (1992) -
Pretty much every TV detective has evolved from the original Holmes—brilliant, has some major psychological issues, unsocial, needs a companion.
Blog text (2) -
Maybe I've just spent too many unsocial nights at home to find hanging around in some bar—smoke-filled or otherwise—even remotely fun, so what's the point of a ban?
Blog text (8) -
She preferred an unsocial lifestyle, often choosing to spend weekends reading alone at home.
Synonyms
83
1.0
Choosing to be alone or living by oneself
24
7.4
Tends to live alone and avoid other people
18
5.8
A person who prefers quiet time and small groups
14
5.1
Preferring to be alone and avoiding social situations
7
3.5
Alone and not near other people or things
2
5.3
A person who does not enjoy being with other people
1
7.2
Prefers to be alone and avoids meeting other people
Not sociable and preferring to be alone
A little shy and quiet, preferring small groups or being alone
How Sociable
11
7.0
21
1.6
343
1.0
2
5.3
1
4.8
24
7.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unsocial is made of un- meaning 'not' and social, which comes from a word for 'being with others' and is the same idea in society. So unsocial describes someone who does not like company and prefers to be alone.