unsocial

English

unsocial (comparative more unsocial, superlative most unsocial)

Not social.
- Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
  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 elementary principles.
Not seeking or showing the desire for the company of others; inhospitable.
- Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
  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. […]

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