insociable

comparative more insociable · superlative most insociable

1. Not sociable or companionable.

   this austere insociable life

   c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]

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   I abhor ſuch phanaticall phantaſms, ſuch inſociable and poynt deuiſe companions, […]

   c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 136, column 1

   Synonyms: unsociable

2. obsoleteIncapable of being associated, joined, or connected.

   Lime and wood are insociable.

   1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC