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insocial

insocial is the obsolete form of unsocial.

Meaning of unsocial

Adjective

unsocial (comparative more unsocial, superlative most unsocial)

  1. Not social.
    • The municipal corporations of that universal kingdom are not morally at liberty at their pleasure, and on their speculations of a contingent improvement, wholly to separate and tear asunder the bands of their subordinate community, and to dissolve it into an unsocial, uncivil, unconnected chaos of...1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC
  2. Not seeking or showing the desire for the company of others; inhospitable.
    • The cupbearer shrugged up his shoulders in displeasure. "I thought to have lodged him in the solere chamber," said he; "but since he is so unsocial to Christians, e'en let him take the next stall to Isaac the Jew's.1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co....

Forms of insocial

comparativemore insocial
superlativemost insocial

Origin of insocial

in- + social

Questions about insocial

What is insocial the obsolete form of?
Insocial is the obsolete form of unsocial.

Words near insocial in the dictionary

  1. insobriety
  2. insociability
  3. insociable
  4. insociableness
  5. insociably
  6. insocial
  7. insociate
  8. insofar
  9. insofar as
  10. insol
  11. insolate

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