Contextualizebeta

antisociable

adj

Etymology

From anti- + sociable.

  1. derived from sociābilis
  2. derived from sociable
  3. prefixed as antisociable — “anti + sociable”

Definitions

  1. antisocial

    • […] as in the French, Spanish, and almost all the other revolutions, that began by an equal division of power, whilst both knowledge and property were very unequally divided, where all returned to their antisociable habits.
    • He comically extols the antisociable virtues of garlic and the lachrymatory effects of peeling onions, useful for elegiac poets.
    • The benefits of being sociable are that people often overlook the importance of being around people. If an individual is antisociable, it is often viewed as being “that is just the way they are.”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for antisociable. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA