ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

V. be secluded, live secluded &c adj.; keep aloof, stand, hold oneself aloof, keep in the
background, stand in the background; keep snug; shut oneself up; deny oneself, seclude
oneself creep into a corner, rusticate, aller planter ses choux [Fr.]; retire, retire from the
world; take the veil; abandon &c 624; sport one's oak [Slang].
cut, cut dead; refuse to associate with, refuse to acknowledge; look cool upon, turn
one's back upon, shut the door upon; repel, blackball, excommunicate, exclude, exile,
expatriate; banish, outlaw, maroon, ostracize, proscribe, cut off from, send to Coventry,
keep at arm's length, draw a cordon round.
depopulate; dispeople † , unpeople † .
Adj. secluded, sequestered, retired, delitescent † , private, bye; out of the world, out of the
way; the world forgetting by the world forgot [Pope].
snug, domestic, stay-at-home.
unsociable; unsocial, dissocial † ; inhospitable, cynical, inconversable † , unclubbable,
sauvage [Fr.], troglodytic.
solitary; lonely, lonesome; isolated, single.
estranged; unfrequented; uninhabitable, uninhabited; tenantless; abandoned; deserted,
deserted in one's utmost need; unfriended † ; kithless † , friendless, homeless; lorn † , forlorn,
desolate.
unvisited, unintroduced † , uninvited, unwelcome; under a cloud, left to shift for
oneself, derelict, outcast.
banished &c v..
Phr. noli me tangere [Lat.].
among them but not of them [Byron]; and homeless near a thousand homes I stood
[Wordsworth]; far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife [Gray]; makes a solitude and
calls it peace [Byron]; magna civitas magna solitudo [Lat.]; never less alone than when
alone [Rogers]; O sacred solitude! divine retreat! [Young].
894. Courtesy -- N. courtesy; respect &c 928; good manners, good behavior, good
breeding; manners; politeness &c adj.; bienseance, urbanity, comity, gentility, breeding,
polish, presence; civility, civilization; amenity, suavity; good temper, good humor;
amiability, easy temper, complacency, soft tongue, mansuetude; condescension &c
(humility) 879; affability, complaisance, pr_evenance, amability † , gallantry; pink of
politeness, pink of courtesy.
compliment; fair words, soft words, sweet words; honeyed phrases, ceremonial
salutation, reception, presentation, introduction, accueil † , greeting, recognition; welcome,
abord † , respects, devoir, regards, remembrances; kind regards, kind remembrances; love,
best love, duty; empty encomium, flattering remark, hollow commendation; salaams.
obeisance &c (reverence) 928; bow, courtesy, curtsy, scrape, salaam, kotow † , kowtow,
bowing and scraping; kneeling; genuflection &c (worship) 990; obsequiousness &c 886;
capping, shaking hands, &c v.; grip of the hand, embrace, hug, squeeze, accolade, loving
cup, vin d'honneur [Fr.], pledge; love token &c (endearment) 902; kiss, buss, salute.
mark of recognition, nod; nods and becks and wreathed smiles [Milton]; valediction
&c 293; condolence &c 915.
V. be courteous &c adj.; show courtesy &c n.. mind one's P's and Q's, behave oneself, be
all things to all men, conciliate, speak one fair, take in good part; make the amiable, do
the amiable; look as if butter would not melt in one's mouth; mend one's manners.