exclusive

Meanings

Adjective

• Excluding items or members that do not meet certain conditions.
• 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.
• Of or relating to the first-person plural pronoun when excluding the person being addressed.
• Having a romantic or sexual relationship with one another, to the exclusion of others.

Noun

• Information (or an artefact) that is granted or obtained exclusively.
• A member of a group who exclude others from their society.
• A word or phrase that restricts something, such as only, solely, or simply.

Related

Opposite words

• inclusive
• non-exclusive

Origin

• From Latin exclūsīvus, from excludere, from ex- + variant form of verb claudere.