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UK
/eɪsˈəʊʃəl/
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ADJECTIVE
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given to avoiding association with others
are you asocial or do you just enjoy living in the Antarctic?
bears are asocial secretive animals -
hostile to or disruptive of normal standards of social behavior
criminal behavior or conduct that violates the rights of other individuals is antisocial
crimes...and other asocial behavior
an antisocial deed
How To Use asocial In A Sentence
- In school he had to beg for food and the Nazis considered him "asocial" and "cretinous". Top stories from Times Online
- Three-segmented ectothermic quadropod, filiform antennae, mandibulate mouthparts, tegmina and hindwings, seemingly asocial. MINUTES TO BURN
- I would like to point out that even if more unmarried men lead to intrasocial instability, whether this will lead to intersocial violence is not clear. China's Future: A Clockwork Orange?
- Three-segmented ectothermic quadropod, filiform antennae, mandibulate mouthparts, tegmina and hindwings, seemingly asocial. MINUTES TO BURN
- This seems to mean that the exhibition is indifferent to abstraction, surrealism or art of an introverted, asocial or eccentric nature.
- For example, the zebrafinch is a highly communal bird, but the congeneric violet-eared waxbill is highly asocial.
- He expresses concern that a society that ceases to respect the ‘res publica’ and loses all faith in a ‘national philosophy’ may well drift into an asocial and culturally vacuous anomie.
- Such radically asocial people easily behave in an anti-social way because they see nothing wrong with it.
- Social groups were composed largely of males, but some males remained solitary year-round and most females were asocial.
- By suggesting an asocial relationship before the intervention of social roles, class, and structures, it threatens to upset the existing order.
