exclusive
English
/ɪkˈsklu.sɪv/
adj
Definitions
- (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 renown, 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.
- Exclusionary.
- Whole, undivided, entire.
- (linguistics) Of or relating to the first-person plural pronoun when excluding the person being addressed.
- (of two people in a romantic or sexual relationship) Having a romantic or sexual relationship with one another, to the exclusion of others.
Etymology
Root from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kleh₂w- (hook, peg, crook, a peg, a crook).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)kleh₂w-
Gloss
hook, peg, crook, a peg, a crook
Concept
Semantic Field
Spatial relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- abocclusion English
- benocclusion English
- claustral English
- claustrum English
- clavichord English
- cloisterless English
- cloisterlike English
- cloistress English
- cloyingly English
- disocclusion English
- encloister English
- exclusively English
- exclusiveness English
- exclusivism English
- exclusivist English
- exclusivity English
- exclusivize English
- foreclosee English
- inclusively English
- inclusiveness English
- inclusivity English
- malocclusion English
- non-exclusive English
- nonexclusively English
- nonexclusivity English
- nonoccluded English
- nonocclusion English
- occluder English
- occlusive English
- overinclusivity English
- postocclusion English
- pre-occluded English
- preocclusion English
- reocclude English
- reocclusion English
- ultraexclusive English
- unexclusive English
- unexclusively English
- unexclusiveness English
- unoccluded English
- vasoocclusion English
- circumcludo Latin
- claustrum Latin
- clausum Latin
- clausus Latin
- clavis Latin
- clāvis Latin
- clāvus Latin
- clāvīcula Latin
- excludo Latin
- exclusio Latin
- exclusivus Latin
- exclusiō Latin
- exclūdō Latin
- exclūsus Latin
- includo Latin
- inclusio Latin
- inclusio, inclusionis Latin
- inclūdere, inclūdō Latin
- inclūdō Latin
- inclūsus Latin
- occludo Latin
- occludĕre Latin
- occlūdō Latin
- occlūsiōnem, occlūsiō Latin
- Exklusivbericht German
- Exklusivinterview German
- Exklusivmeldung German
- exklusiv German
- exkluzív Hungarian
- cloisonné French
- exclusif French
- эксклюзивный Russian
- exclusivo Spanish, Castilian
- κλείς Ancient Greek
- *(s)kleh₂w- Proto-Indo-European
- *(s)kleh₂w-, *kleh₂u- Proto-Indo-European
- *kleh₂ud-, *kleh₂u- Proto-Indo-European
- *klāw- Proto-Indo-European
- eksklusiv Norwegian Bokmål
- eksklusiv Norwegian Nynorsk
- forclȳsan Old English
- cloistrier Old French
- cloistral Middle French
- *klāwos Proto-Celtic
- achlwedd Proto-Brythonic
- κλᾳ̃θρα grc-dor
- occluder
- claustrum
- cloyingly
- reocclude
- occlusive
- claustral
- encloister
- unoccluded
- foreclosee
- cloistress
- clavichord
- exclusivize
- exclusively
- inclusivity
- unexclusive
- abocclusion
- reocclusion
- exclusivity
- nonoccluded
- inclusively
- exclusivism
- exclusivist
- disocclusion
- cloisterlike
- cloisterless
- benocclusion
- malocclusion
- preocclusion
- pre-occluded
- nonocclusion
- exclusiveness
- unexclusively
- non-exclusive
- inclusiveness
- vasoocclusion
- postocclusion
- nonexclusivity
- nonexclusively
- ultraexclusive
- overinclusivity
- unexclusiveness