insociable
adjEtymology From Latin īnsociābilis.
1
Not sociable or companionable.
- 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:
- this austere insociable lifec. 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]:
2
Obsolete Incapable of being associated, joined, or connected.
- Lime and wood are insociable.1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC:
- Derived terms
- insociableness, insociably