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

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