hermit

Noun

Meaning

A person who retires from society and lives in solitude; a recluse; an anchoret; especially, one who so lives from religious motives.

A beadsman; one bound to pray for another.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

solitary recluse anchorite troglodyte solitudinarian puritan sufi abbot dervish friar maverick egoist misanthrope fakir pokey

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Antonyms

playboy rascal local team rogue libertine

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Hypernyms

loner lone wolf eremite lone hand

Phrases with the word

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Anagrams

mither

Examples

If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it. Jean Cocteau

Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray. Oliver Goldsmith

There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail. Anton Chekhov

If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit. Richard Foreman

I had taken a partner once before-but, damnation, no matter how many times you get your fingers burned, you have to trust people. Otherwise you are a hermit in a cave, sleeping with one eye open. Robert A. Heinlein

When the devil is old he turns hermit. Italian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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