reclusive

withdrawn from society; seeking solitude

Affording retirement from society.

L Lat. reclusus, past part. of recludere, to shut in

“There dwelt old heroes at Ilium famed, There, bards reclusive, of olden odes; And so fair were the fields of roses, they named The bright sea-garden the Isle of Rhodes.”

— Burton Egbert [Editor] Stevenson, Poems of American History

“The bunyip has been described by natives as amphibious, nocturnal, reclusive, and inhabiting lakes, rivers, and swamps.”