UNSOCIABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unsociable mean? 

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

1. not inclined to society or companionship

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNSOCIABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not inclined to society or companionship

Context example:

an unsociable neighborhood

Similar:

antisocial (shunning contact with others)

ungregarious (not disposed to seek company)

Also:

unfriendly (not disposed to friendship or friendliness)

unsocial (not seeking or given to association; being or living without companions)

Attribute:

sociability; sociableness (the relative tendency or disposition to be sociable or associate with one's fellows)

Antonym:

sociable (inclined to or conducive to companionship with others)

Derivation:

unsociability; unsociableness (an unsociable disposition; avoiding friendship or companionship)

 Context examples 

Interestin' beasts, don't you think? But unsociable!

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is for the convenience of these that the Diogenes Club was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubable men in town.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A most unsociable dog he proved to be, resenting all their advances, refusing to let them lay hands on him, menacing them with bared fangs and bristling hair.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Riding along on the train, near to the line between California and Oregon, he chanced to look out of the window and saw his unsociable guest sliding along the wagon road, brown and wolfish, tired yet tireless, dust-covered and soiled with two hundred miles of travel.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)