insociable

From Latin insociabilis: compare French insociable. See in- (“not”), and sociable.

insociable (comparative more insociable, superlative most insociable)

1. Not sociable or companionable.

   Synonym: unsociable

   • 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 606515358, [Act V, scene i], page 136, column 1:

     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 606515358, [Act V, scene ii]:

     this austere insociable life

2. (obsolete) Incapable of being associated, joined, or connected.
   • 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, OCLC 17479433:

     Lime and wood are insociable.

• insociable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

insociable (plural insociables)

1. insociable

• “insociable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• insociábel

insociable m or f (plural insociables)

1. unsociable; that does not relate well to others

• (unsociable): túzaro

insociable (plural insociables)

1. unsociable

• “insociable”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014