UNSOCIAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unsocial mean? 

• UNSOCIAL (adjective)
  The adjective UNSOCIAL has 1 sense:

1. not seeking or given to association; being or living without companions

  Familiarity information: UNSOCIAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNSOCIAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not seeking or given to association; being or living without companions

Context example:

the unsocial disposition to neglect one's neighbors

Similar:

alone (isolated from others)

antisocial; asocial (hostile to or disruptive of normal standards of social behavior)

asocial (given to avoiding association with others)

lone; lonely; solitary (characterized by or preferring solitude)

recluse; reclusive; withdrawn (withdrawn from society; seeking solitude)

Also:

ungregarious ((of animals) not gregarious)

unsociable (not inclined to society or companionship)

Attribute:

sociality (the tendency to associate with others and to form social groups)

Antonym:

social (living together or enjoying life in communities or organized groups)

 Context examples 

St. John had a book in his hand—it was his unsocial custom to read at meals—he closed it, and looked up.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Study had before secluded me from the intercourse of my fellow-creatures, and rendered me unsocial; but Clerval called forth the better feelings of my heart; he again taught me to love the aspect of nature, and the cheerful faces of children.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)