Unsociable

Definition: Unsociable

Unsociable

Adjective

1. Not inclined to society or companionship; "an unsociable nature...shy and reserved"; "generally unsociable except with intimate friends"; "unsociable behavior"; "an unsociable neighborhood".

Date "unsociable" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Antonym: sociable (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Seclusion Exclusion	Unsociable; unsocial, dissocial; inhospitable, cynical, inconversable, unclubbable, sauvage, troglodytic.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Unsociable

English words defined with "unsociable": dark, dour ♦ glowering, glum ♦ Insociable ♦ moody, morose ♦ saturnine, sour, sullen ♦ unsociability, unsociableness, unsociably. (references)

Specialty definitions using "unsociable": all-elbows. (references)

"Unsociable" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unsociable" is used about 35 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	35	58,339

Expressions using "unsociable": be unsociable ♦ unsociable person. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "unsociable"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i pashoqëruar (unaccompanied), i paafrueshëm (unapproachable), i mbyllur (barred, cagey, cagy, close, closed, confined, enclosed, finished, glued, laid up, landlocked, locked, made, pent up, reserved, sealed, self contained, shut, shut in, uncommunicative, uncompanionable, unconversable, unsocial, withdrawn). (various references)

Arabic		‏منطو على نفسه (introvert, withdrawn). (various references)

Bulgarian		сдържан (aloof, buttoned up, chary, composed, continent, coy, distant, modest, offish, remote, reserved, restrained, reticent, retiring, stand offish, taciturn, unaffable, uncommunicative, undemonstrative, undramatic, unemotional, unsocial), необщителен (antisocial, dissociable, dissocial, dry, incommunicable, incommunicative, morose, reserved, reticent, segregative, self contained, taciturn, uncommunicative, unneighborly, unneighbourly, unsocial, withdrawn), подивял (feral, grown wild, rogue, wild). (various references)

Czech		nespoleèenský (antisocial, dissociable, dissocial, unsocial, withdrawn). (various references)

Dutch		teruggetrokken (modest). (various references)

Farsi		مردم گریز (Misanthrope, Unsocial), گوشه نشین (Recluse, Solitary, Solitudinarian), گریزان ازاجتماع , غیراجتماعی (Asocial, Unsocial). (various references)

Finnish		seuraa vierova, seuraa karttava (uncompanionable), juro (morose, sulky, sullen, surly). (various references)

French		insociable. (various references)

German		ungesellig (asocial, non-gregarious, unsociably), menschenscheu (afraid of people). (various references)

Greek		ακοινώνητοσ (shy, unsocial). (various references)

Hungarian		emberkerülõ (misanthrope, misanthropist). (various references)

Indonesian		tunalaras. (various references)

Italian		insocievole. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		非社交的 (antisocial), 閉鎖 (closing, closure, lockout, shutdown), 交際嫌い . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ひじゃ�"うてき (antisocial), �"うさいぎらい, へいさ (closing, closure, lockout, shutdown). (various references)

Pig Latin		ociableunsay

Portuguese		selvagem (barbaric, brutal, feral, goth, riderless, savage, truculent, unbacked, wild, wilding), misantropo (misanthrope, misanthropist), intratável (crab, crabbed, crabby, cross-grained, currish, fractious, intractable, kittle, restive, snappish, snappy, sullen, surly, unapproachable, uncompromising, unmanageable), insociável (asocial, intractable, morose, sullen, unsocial), arisco (brutal, gruff, harsh, rough, shy, sour, surly, unkind, unpleasant). (various references)

Romanian		sãlbatic (barbarous, bloodthirsty, brutal, brutish, cruel, feral, ferine, ferocious, fierce, fiery, haggard, harsh, impetuous, inhuman, inhumanly, rugged, sanguinary, savage, shaggy, tameless, truculent, uncivilized, uncouth, uncouthly, uncultivated, uncultured, ungovernable, unruly, violent, wild, wild man), nesociabil (antisocial). (various references)

Russian		необщительный (dissociable, dissocial, incommunicative, inconversable, offish, segregative, standoffish, uncommunicative, uncompanionable, unconversable, unsocial). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nesocijalan (dissociable, dissocial, unsocial), nedruštven (antisocial, unaffable). (various references)

Spanish		esquivo (backward, disdainful, elusive, elusory, evasive, shy). (various references)

Swedish		osällskaplig (antisocial, dissocial, farouche, inconversable). (various references)

Turkish		sokulgan olmayan (uncompanionable, unfriendly, unsocial), çekingen (backward, bashful, coy, demure, diffident, distrustful of oneself, eunuch, faint, fainthearted, farouche, mousy, reserved, retiring, shrinking, shy, standoffish, timid, timorous, uncommunicative, unsocial, withdrawn). (various references)

Turkmen		яekemen (solitary), garasцяmez (reserved). (various references)

Ukrainian		відлюдний (ascetic, close, coy, lonely, morose, obscure, offish, recluse, remote, retired, shut in, unsocial). (various references)

Vietnamese		khó gần (insociable, stand-offish, unconversable), khó chan ho� (insociable). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "unsociable": unsociableness, unsociablenesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Unsociable" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: uncopiable, uncucarable. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "unsociable" (pronounced 'Un*so"cia*ble'): Abatable, Abdicable, Abhominable, Abhorrible, Abolishable, Abominable, Abrogable, Absolvable, Absorbable, Abusable, Accendible, Accentuable, Acceptable, Accessible, Acclimatable, Acclimatizable, Accommodable, Accompanable, Accomplishable, Accomptable, Accordable, Accostable, Accountable, Accusable, Accustomable, Acetable, Achievable, Acidifiable, Acquaintable, Acquirable, Acreable, Actable, Actionable, Adaptable, Addable, Addible, Adducible, Adjustable, Administrable, Admirable, Admissible, Admittable, Adoptable, Adorable, Adustible, Advantageable, Advisable, Affable, Affectible, Affiliable. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-i-l-n-o-s-u"
	-1 letter: balconies.
	-2 letters: alnicoes, baculine, binocles, bioclean, ciboules, coalbins, coinable, lacunose, lunacies, nubilose, sociable, unsocial.
	-3 letters: aboulic, acinose, acinous, albinos, alnicos, anisole, bascule, beacons, binocle, bonacis, boucles, bounces, buncoes, cauline, celosia, censual, ciboule, cineols, coalbin, counsel, elusion, inclose, inlaces, inocula, inulase, lacunes, launces, lesbian, leucins, nebulas, obelias, oilcans, sanicle, scaleni, subclan, subline, uncials, unclose.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-i-l-n-o-s-u"
	+2 letters: discountable, inconsumable, ribonuclease.
	+3 letters: elucubrations, ribonucleases.
	+4 letters: binocularities, connubialities, constabularies, countabilities, nonjusticiable, rediscountable, relubrications, republications, subcontinental, unconscionable, undiscoverable, unsociableness.
	+5 letters: antituberculous, incommensurable, incommensurably, prepublications, uncompromisable, unsociabilities.
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