Exclusive
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English
Adjective
Exclusive (comparative more Exclusive, superlative most Exclusive)
- (literally) Excluding items or members that do not meet certain conditions.
- (figuratively) Referring to a membership organisation, service or product: of high quality and/or reknown, for superior members only. A snobbish usage, suggesting that members who do not meet requirements, which may be financial, of celebrity, religion, skin colour etc., are excluded.
- Exclusive clubs tend to serve exclusive brands of food and drinks, in the same exorbitant price range, such as the 'finest' French châteaux.
- exclusionary
- whole, undivided, entire
- The teacher's pet commands the teacher's exclusive attention.
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Noun
Exclusive (plural Exclusives)- Information (or an artefact) that is granted or obtained exclusively.
- The editor agreed to keep a lid on a potentially distastrous political scoop in exchange for an exclusive of a happier nature
Adverbs for Exclusive
socially; discriminatingly; absurdly; wisely; necessarily; snobbishly; proudly; haughtily; carefully; significantly; purposely; designedly; unreasonably; offensively; formally; officially; safely; rigidly; ridiculously.
Thesaurus
Olympian, a certain, absolute, aloof, an, any, any one, apart from, aristocratic, arrogant, article, atomic, barring, beat, budget of news, chic, chilly, choice, chosen, clannish, classy, cliquish, closed, cold, concentrated, confining, contemptuous, contumelious, cool, copy, dashing, debarring, defining, definitive, detached, disdainful, distant, either, elect, elegant, elite, ethnocentric, except for, excepting, exceptional, excluding, exclusive of, exclusory, fashionable, fixed, forbidding, frigid, frosty, haughty, high-hat, icy, ignoring, inaccessible, inadmissible, incompatible, individual, indivisible, inhibitive, inhibitory, inimical, insular, integral, interdictive, interdictory, irreducible, limitary, limitative, limited, limiting, lone, modish, monadic, monistic, narrow, news item, not counting, offish, omitting, one, only, parochial, pick, picked, piece, preclusive, preferred, prescriptive, preventive, private, privileged, prohibiting, prohibitive, prohibitory, proscriptive, remote, removed, repressive, restricted, restricting, restrictive, scoop, scornful, seclusive, segregative, select, selected, selective, separative, simple, single, singular, smart, sneering, sniffy, snobbish, snobby, snooty, snotty, sole, solid, solitary, spot news, standoff, standoffish, story, stylish, supercilious, suppressive, swank, swish, tony, toploftical, toplofty, trendy, unanalyzable, unapproachable, undistracted, undivided, uniform, unique, unitary, unshared, unswerving, whole, with-it, withdrawn, withering, xenophobic
Etymology
From Latin exclūsīvus < excludere (“to shut out, exclude”) < ex- (“out”) + variant form of verb claudere (“to close, shut”).
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Noun
- Dutch: exclusief(je) n.
External links
- Exclusive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- Exclusive in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
French
Adjective
Exclusive f.
- feminine of exclusif
Latin
Adjective
exclūsive
- vocative masculine singular of exclūsivus
