Sociable is an adjective that describes someone who is outgoing, friendly, and enjoys spending time with others. However, there are antonyms for the word sociable that describe the opposite characteristics. The first is unsociable, which means someone who is not inclined to socialize, and may prefer to be alone. Reclusive is another antonym, which means to avoid contact with other people altogether. Reserved is another antonym, which means someone who is cautious when interacting with others and may come across as distant or shy. Other antonyms include introverted, aloof, and withdrawn. These words describe people who have a hard time connecting with others and may prefer to be by themselves.

What are the antonyms for Sociable?

• adj.

  • all
  • unsociable
  .
  • aloof
  • Hard-hearted
  ,
  • forbidding
  ,
  • hard boiled
  ,
  • hard hearted
  ,
  • hardboiled
  ,
  • in curious
  ,
  • in different
  ,
  • in-curious
  ,
  • in-different
  ,
  • laid back
  ,
  • more above
  ,
  • more apart
  ,
  • more hard hearted
  ,
  • more hard-hearted
  ,
  • most above
  ,
  • most apart
  ,
  • most hard hearted
  ,
  • most hard-hearted
  ,
  • on ice
  ,
  • putting airs
  ,
  • putting on airs
  ,
  • stuck up
  ,
  • thick skinned
  ,
  • thickskinned
  ,
  • un approachable
  ,
  • un concerned
  ,
  • un interested
  ,
  • un responsive
  ,
  • un sympathetic
  ,
  • un-approachable
  ,
  • un-concerned
  ,
  • un-interested
  ,
  • un-responsive
  ,
  • un-sympathetic
  ,
  • unapproachable
  ,
  • uninterested
  ,
  • up pity
  ,
  • up-pity
  .
  • aloof, disapproving
  • cool
  .
  • aloof, disinterested; neutral
  • detached
  .
  • antisocial
  • anti social
  ,
  • anti-social
  ,
  • asocial
  ,
  • eremetic
  ,
  • hermitlike
  ,
  • more asocial
  ,
  • more eremetic
  ,
  • more hermitlike
  ,
  • most asocial
  ,
  • most eremetic
  ,
  • most hermitlike
  ,
  • un communicative
  ,
  • un-communicative
  .
  • chill
  • Uncompanionable
  ,
  • de pressing
  ,
  • de-pressing
  ,
  • more uncompanionable
  ,
  • more unwelcoming
  ,
  • most uncompanionable
  ,
  • most unwelcoming
  ,
  • un companionable
  ,
  • un emotional
  ,
  • un happier
  ,
  • un happiest
  ,
  • un happy
  ,
  • un welcoming
  ,
  • un-emotional
  ,
  • un-genial
  ,
  • un-happy
  ,
  • un-welcoming
  ,
  • ungenial
  ,
  • unwelcoming
  .
  • close
  • buttoning up
  ,
  • clamming up
  ,
  • close lipped
  ,
  • close-lipped
  ,
  • closelipped
  ,
  • hush hush
  ,
  • hushhush
  ,
  • more close lipped
  ,
  • more close-lipped
  ,
  • more closelipped
  ,
  • more unforthcoming
  ,
  • most close lipped
  ,
  • most close-lipped
  ,
  • most closelipped
  ,
  • most unforthcoming
  ,
  • mum the word
  ,
  • mum word
  ,
  • mum's word
  ,
  • mums the word
  ,
  • mums word
  ,
  • on q t
  ,
  • on qt
  ,
  • on the q t
  ,
  • tight chops
  ,
  • tight lipped
  ,
  • un forthcoming
  ,
  • un-forthcoming
  ,
  • zipping lips
  ,
  • zipping one lips
  ,
  • zipping one's lips
  ,
  • zipping ones lips
  .
  • cold, distant
  • standoffish
  .
  • cool
  • in solent
  ,
  • in-solent
  ,
  • more procacious
  ,
  • most procacious
  ,
  • un enthusiastic
  ,
  • un-enthusiastic
  .
  • detached
  • Unpassioned
  ,
  • dis passionate
  ,
  • dis-passionate
  ,
  • laidback
  ,
  • more poker faced
  ,
  • more uncurious
  ,
  • more unpassioned
  ,
  • most poker faced
  ,
  • most poker-faced
  ,
  • most uncurious
  ,
  • most unpassioned
  ,
  • out it
  ,
  • out of it
  ,
  • poker faced
  ,
  • poker-faced
  ,
  • re moved
  ,
  • un biased
  ,
  • un committed
  ,
  • un curious
  ,
  • un involved
  ,
  • un prejudiced
  ,
  • un-committed
  ,
  • un-curious
  ,
  • un-involved
  ,
  • un-prejudiced
  ,
  • uncurious
  .
  • difficult
  • Difficile
  ,
  • Hardwon
  ,
  • backbreaker
  ,
  • be wildering
  ,
  • be-wildering
  ,
  • bearish
  ,
  • easier said than done
  ,
  • enigmatical
  ,
  • ex acting
  ,
  • ex-acting
  ,
  • fractious
  ,
  • hard please
  ,
  • hard solve
  ,
  • hard to explain
  ,
  • hard to please
  ,
  • hard to solve
  ,
  • hard won
  ,
  • hard-won
  ,
  • in explicable
  ,
  • in tractable
  ,
  • in-explicable
  ,
  • in-tractable
  ,
  • irritable
  ,
  • more backbreaker
  ,
  • more bearish
  ,
  • more bewildering
  ,
  • more confounding
  ,
  • more difficile
  ,
  • more difficult
  ,
  • more entangled
  ,
  • more hardwon
  ,
  • more paradoxical
  ,
  • more problem
  ,
  • more unaccommodating
  ,
  • more unamenable
  ,
  • more upstream
  ,
  • more vexing
  ,
  • most backbreaker
  ,
  • most bearish
  ,
  • most challenging
  ,
  • most confounding
  ,
  • most difficile
  ,
  • most entangled
  ,
  • most hard won
  ,
  • most hard-won
  ,
  • most hardwon
  ,
  • most problem
  ,
  • most unaccommodating
  ,
  • most unamenable
  ,
  • most upstream
  ,
  • most vexing
  ,
  • no picnic
  ,
  • not easy
  ,
  • paradoxical
  ,
  • pro found
  ,
  • pro founder
  ,
  • pro-found
  ,
  • pro-founder
  ,
  • un accommodating
  ,
  • un amenable
  ,
  • un clear
  ,
  • un clearest
  ,
  • un fathomable
  ,
  • un yielding
  ,
  • un-accommodating
  ,
  • un-amenable
  ,
  • un-clear
  ,
  • un-clearest
  ,
  • un-intelligible
  ,
  • un-yielding
  ,
  • unaccommodating
  ,
  • unamenable
  ,
  • up hill
  ,
  • up stream
  ,
  • up-hill
  ,
  • up-stream
  ,
  • upstream
  .
  • feeling friendless, forlorn
  • lonely
  .
  • friendly, outgoing
  • aloof
  ,
  • cold
  ,
  • introverted
  ,
  • snobbish
  ,
  • uncommon
  ,
  • unfriendly
  ,
  • unkind
  .
  • hard on someone; hard to do
  • difficult
  .
  • hidden
  • Hermetical
  ,
  • Shrouded
  ,
  • dis guised
  ,
  • dis-guised
  ,
  • in dark
  ,
  • in discernible
  ,
  • in visible
  ,
  • in-visible
  ,
  • more hermetical
  ,
  • more imperceivable
  ,
  • more sequestered
  ,
  • more unrevealed
  ,
  • most eclipsed
  ,
  • most hermetical
  ,
  • most imperceivable
  ,
  • most sequestered
  ,
  • most unrevealed
  ,
  • out of view
  ,
  • un detected
  ,
  • un disclosed
  ,
  • un exposed
  ,
  • un known
  ,
  • un revealed
  ,
  • un-detected
  ,
  • un-disclosed
  ,
  • un-exposed
  ,
  • un-known
  ,
  • un-revealed
  ,
  • under ground
  ,
  • under-cover
  ,
  • unrevealed
  ,
  • with held
  ,
  • with-held
  .
  • hidden, unrevealed
  • secret
  .
  • humble
  • de mure
  ,
  • de-mure
  ,
  • more supplicatory
  ,
  • more unambitious
  ,
  • most supplicatory
  ,
  • most unambitious
  ,
  • self conscious
  ,
  • self effacing
  ,
  • selfconscious
  ,
  • selfeffacing
  ,
  • soft spoken
  ,
  • softspoken
  ,
  • sub missive
  ,
  • supplicatory
  ,
  • un ambitious
  ,
  • un obtrusive
  ,
  • un ostentatious
  ,
  • un-ambitious
  ,
  • un-obtrusive
  ,
  • un-ostentatious
  ,
  • un-pretentious
  ,
  • unambitious
  .
  • inhibited
  • more repressed
  ,
  • most repressed
  ,
  • re pressed
  ,
  • un demonstrative
  ,
  • un-demonstrative
  ,
  • up tight
  ,
  • up-tight
  .
  • isolated, sheltered
  • secluded
  .
  • lonely
  • Troglodytic
  ,
  • Unbefriended
  ,
  • by oneself
  ,
  • de solate
  ,
  • de-solate
  ,
  • more estranged
  ,
  • more troglodytic
  ,
  • more unbefriended
  ,
  • more uncherished
  ,
  • more unsocial
  ,
  • most estranged
  ,
  • most outcast
  ,
  • most renounced
  ,
  • most troglodytic
  ,
  • most unbefriended
  ,
  • most uncherished
  ,
  • most unsocial
  ,
  • out cast
  ,
  • out-cast
  ,
  • un befriended
  ,
  • un cherished
  ,
  • un social
  ,
  • un-attended
  ,
  • un-befriended
  ,
  • un-cherished
  ,
  • un-social
  ,
  • uncherished
  ,
  • unsocial
  .
  • misanthropic
  • eremitic
  ,
  • in humane
  ,
  • in-humane
  ,
  • inhumane
  ,
  • mis anthropic
  ,
  • mis anthropical
  ,
  • mis-anthropic
  ,
  • mis-anthropical
  ,
  • misanthropical
  ,
  • more eremitic
  ,
  • more hating
  ,
  • more misanthropical
  ,
  • most eremitic
  ,
  • most hating
  ,
  • most misanthropical
  .
  • monastic
  • more monkish
  ,
  • more oblate
  ,
  • most oblate
  ,
  • oblate
  .
  • nonparticipating; avoiding company
  • antisocial
  .
  • noun
  • Insociable
  ,
  • abrupt
  ,
  • adverse
  ,
  • alienated
  ,
  • altricial
  ,
  • antagonistic
  ,
  • autonomous
  ,
  • bellicose
  ,
  • belligerent
  ,
  • blunt
  ,
  • boorish
  ,
  • brusque
  ,
  • churlish
  ,
  • contentious
  ,
  • crabbed
  ,
  • crusty
  ,
  • curt
  ,
  • disaffected
  ,
  • disagreeable
  ,
  • estranged
  ,
  • frigid
  ,
  • gruff
  ,
  • hostile
  ,
  • incompatible
  ,
  • independent
  ,
  • indifferent
  ,
  • inimical
  ,
  • lone
  ,
  • misanthropic
  ,
  • mum
  ,
  • mute
  ,
  • nongregarious
  ,
  • nonsocial
  ,
  • recluse
  ,
  • reclusive
  ,
  • rude
  ,
  • self-contained
  ,
  • self-sufficient
  ,
  • self-supporting
  ,
  • self-sustaining
  ,
  • solitary
  ,
  • uncongenial
  ,
  • warlike
  .
  • out-of-the-way; in the distance
  • remote
  .
  • personal, intimate
  • private
  .
  • private
  • behind scenes
  ,
  • behind the scenes
  ,
  • close chest
  ,
  • close one chest
  ,
  • close one's chest
  ,
  • close ones chest
  ,
  • close to chest
  ,
  • close to one chest
  ,
  • close to one's chest
  ,
  • close to ones chest
  ,
  • in dependent
  ,
  • in dividual
  ,
  • in side
  ,
  • in-dependent
  ,
  • in-dividual
  ,
  • more closet
  ,
  • more nonpublic
  ,
  • most closet
  ,
  • most nonpublic
  ,
  • non public
  ,
  • non-public
  ,
  • nonpublic
  ,
  • not open
  ,
  • off record
  ,
  • un official
  ,
  • un-official
  ,
  • under ones hat
  .
  • quiet
  • in-active
  ,
  • more unanxious
  ,
  • more unexcited
  ,
  • most unanxious
  ,
  • most unexcited
  ,
  • un anxious
  ,
  • un disturbed
  ,
  • un excited
  ,
  • un frequented
  ,
  • un ruffled
  ,
  • un troubled
  ,
  • un-anxious
  ,
  • un-excited
  ,
  • un-frequented
  ,
  • un-ruffled
  ,
  • un-troubled
  ,
  • unexcited
  .
  • recluse/reclusive
  • Seclusive
  ,
  • more reclusive
  ,
  • more secluse
  ,
  • more seclusive
  ,
  • most secluse
  ,
  • most seclusive
  ,
  • secluse
  .
  • reclusive
  • hermit like
  ,
  • hermit-like
  ,
  • more hermit like
  ,
  • more hermit-like
  ,
  • most hermit like
  ,
  • most hermit-like
  .
  • remote
  • be yond
  ,
  • be-yond
  ,
  • far flung
  ,
  • far off
  ,
  • farflung
  ,
  • god knows where
  ,
  • god-knows-where
  ,
  • in accessible
  ,
  • in backwater
  ,
  • in-accessible
  ,
  • middle nowhere
  ,
  • middle of nowhere
  ,
  • more beyond
  ,
  • more boondocks
  ,
  • more frontier
  ,
  • more god-knows-where
  ,
  • more offlying
  ,
  • most beyond
  ,
  • most boondocks
  ,
  • most frontier
  ,
  • most god knows where
  ,
  • most god-knows-where
  ,
  • most off-lying
  ,
  • most offlying
  ,
  • off beaten path
  ,
  • off lying
  ,
  • off-lying
  ,
  • offlying
  ,
  • out lying
  ,
  • out-lying
  ,
  • re-mote
  ,
  • un discovered
  ,
  • un settled
  ,
  • un-discovered
  ,
  • un-settled
  .
  • reserved
  • close mouthed
  ,
  • laid away
  ,
  • more appropriated
  ,
  • more claimed
  ,
  • more preempted
  ,
  • most appropriated
  ,
  • most claimed
  ,
  • most preempted
  ,
  • non committal
  ,
  • non-committal
  ,
  • re served
  ,
  • re strained
  ,
  • re-served
  ,
  • re-strained
  ,
  • roped off
  ,
  • self contained
  ,
  • selfcontained
  ,
  • set apart
  ,
  • spoken for
  ,
  • un-companionable
  .
  • retired
  • cidevant
  ,
  • dis charged
  ,
  • dis-charged
  ,
  • emeritus
  ,
  • more cidevant
  ,
  • more emeritus
  ,
  • more immured
  ,
  • most cidevant
  ,
  • most emeritus
  ,
  • most immured
  ,
  • re tired
  .
  • retiring
  • Unaffable
  ,
  • more nongregarious
  ,
  • more unassertive
  ,
  • more unexpansive
  ,
  • more withdrawing
  ,
  • most nongregarious
  ,
  • most rabbity
  ,
  • most unaffable
  ,
  • most unexpansive
  ,
  • non gregarious
  ,
  • non-gregarious
  ,
  • not forward
  ,
  • rabbity
  ,
  • re tiring
  ,
  • re-tiring
  ,
  • un affable
  ,
  • un assertive
  ,
  • un assuming
  ,
  • un expansive
  ,
  • un-affable
  ,
  • un-assertive
  ,
  • un-expansive
  ,
  • unassertive
  ,
  • unexpansive
  ,
  • with drawing
  ,
  • with-drawing
  .
  • secluded
  • Screened
  ,
  • be leaguered
  ,
  • be-leaguered
  ,
  • blockaded
  ,
  • more beleaguered
  ,
  • more blockaded
  ,
  • more isolate
  ,
  • most beleaguered
  ,
  • most blockaded
  ,
  • most isolate
  ,
  • off beaten track
  ,
  • off the beaten track
  ,
  • tucked away
  ,
  • un inhabited
  ,
  • un-inhabited
  .
  • secret
  • backdoor
  ,
  • cloak and dagger
  ,
  • conspiratorial
  ,
  • more backdoor
  ,
  • more conspiratorial
  ,
  • most backdoor
  ,
  • most conspiratorial
  ,
  • un enlightened
  ,
  • un published
  ,
  • un seen
  ,
  • un-enlightened
  ,
  • un-published
  .
  • shy
  • inhibited
  .
  • shy, undemonstrative
  • retiring
  .
  • single
  • in divisible
  ,
  • in-divisible
  ,
  • more singled out
  ,
  • more singled-out
  ,
  • more singledout
  ,
  • more unalloyed
  ,
  • more uncompounded
  ,
  • more unmixed
  ,
  • more unshared
  ,
  • most singled out
  ,
  • most singled-out
  ,
  • most singledout
  ,
  • most unalloyed
  ,
  • most uncompounded
  ,
  • most unitary
  ,
  • most unmixed
  ,
  • most unshared
  ,
  • not general
  ,
  • not public
  ,
  • singled out
  ,
  • singled-out
  ,
  • singledout
  ,
  • un blended
  ,
  • un common
  ,
  • un commoner
  ,
  • un commonest
  ,
  • un compounded
  ,
  • un divided
  ,
  • un mixed
  ,
  • un rivaled
  ,
  • un usual
  ,
  • un-alloyed
  ,
  • un-blended
  ,
  • un-common
  ,
  • un-commoner
  ,
  • un-compounded
  ,
  • un-divided
  ,
  • un-mixed
  ,
  • un-rivaled
  ,
  • un-shared
  ,
  • un-usual
  ,
  • unalloyed
  ,
  • uncompounded
  ,
  • unitary
  ,
  • unmixed
  ,
  • unshared
  ,
  • without equal
  .
  • snobbish
  • Over-bearing
  ,
  • high flown
  ,
  • high hat
  ,
  • high-and-mighty
  ,
  • highflown
  ,
  • highhat
  ,
  • more high and mighty
  ,
  • more high-and-mighty
  ,
  • most high and mighty
  ,
  • most high hat
  ,
  • most high-hat
  ,
  • over bearing
  ,
  • sniffier
  ,
  • sniffiest
  ,
  • sniffy
  .
  • solitary
  • hermitical
  ,
  • more hermitical
  ,
  • most hermitical
  ,
  • stag
  ,
  • staggest
  ,
  • un accompanied
  ,
  • un-accompanied
  .
  • unfriendly
  • dis affected
  ,
  • dis agreeable
  ,
  • dis-affected
  ,
  • dis-agreeable
  ,
  • ill disposed
  ,
  • ill-disposed
  ,
  • illdisposed
  ,
  • in auspicious
  ,
  • in hospitable
  ,
  • in-auspicious
  ,
  • in-hospitable
  ,
  • more against
  ,
  • more grudging
  ,
  • more ill disposed
  ,
  • more ill-disposed
  ,
  • more illdisposed
  ,
  • more unneighborly
  ,
  • most against
  ,
  • most grudging
  ,
  • most ill disposed
  ,
  • most ill-disposed
  ,
  • most illdisposed
  ,
  • most unneighborly
  ,
  • not on speaking terms
  ,
  • not speaking terms
  ,
  • un charitable
  ,
  • un congenial
  ,
  • un favorable
  ,
  • un friendlier
  ,
  • un friendliest
  ,
  • un friendly
  ,
  • un neighborly
  ,
  • un propitious
  ,
  • un-charitable
  ,
  • un-congenial
  ,
  • un-favorable
  ,
  • un-friendlier
  ,
  • un-friendliest
  ,
  • un-friendly
  ,
  • un-neighborly
  ,
  • unneighborly
  .
  • unfriendly, aloof
  • chill
  .
  • unseen, secret
  • hidden
  .
  • unsociable
  • easy going
  ,
  • easy-going
  ,
  • more brooding
  ,
  • more easy going
  ,
  • more easy-going
  ,
  • most brooding
  ,
  • most easy going
  ,
  • recessive
  ,
  • stuckup
  ,
  • un bending
  ,
  • un sociable
  ,
  • un-bending
  ,
  • un-sociable
  ,
  • unforthcoming
  ,
  • withdrawn
  .
  • with communal life
  • monastic
  .
  • withdrawn
  • de parted
  ,
  • de-parted
  ,
  • dis interested
  ,
  • dis-interested
  ,
  • more retreated
  ,
  • most retreated
  ,
  • re treated
  ,
  • re-treated
  ,
  • taken out
  ,
  • with drawn
  ,
  • with-drawn
  .

• n.

  • noun
  • smart aleck
  .

• Other relevant words:

• Unhandsome
,
• aggressive
,
• close
,
• fiery
,
• humble
,
• jaundiced
,
• modest
,
• prickly
,
• quiet
,
• reserved
,
• scalding
,
• sharp
,
• single
,
• unsympathetic
,
• uptight
.

Usage examples for Sociable

Famous quotes with Sociable

• She and my uncle were very sociable and would have a lot of people over at night to play cards or whatever. The high spot of those evenings was when we kids got dressed up to do a skit or something to amuse the guests. I loved it.

  Louise Fletcher
• Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.

  John Gay
• My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

  Franz Kafka
• Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

  Arthur Schopenhauer
• We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.

  John Updike

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