Asocial

Quick meaning: Asocial is an adjective meaning Not social, not relating to society.

Meaning

Not social, not relating to society.

More Meanings

1. Not sociable; having minimal social connections with others; not inclined to connect with others socially.
2. (colloquial, proscribed) Antisocial.
3. A person considered to be antisocial or to exhibit antisocial behaviour, especially as a classification used by the Nazi regime in Germany.

Example Sentences

And it’s maybe because of math’s absolute, wholly abstract Truth that so many people still view the discipline as dry or passionless and its practitioners as asocial dweebs.

She herself was already asocial at the age of six months and stiffened in her mother’s arms at this time, and such reactions, common in autism, she also finds inexplicable in terms of theory of mind.

In a nation which increasingly appears to prize social virtues, Howard Hughes remains not merely antisocial but grandly, brilliantly, surpassingly, asocial. He is the last private man, the dream we no longer admit.

The so­cial worker speaks of asocial behavior. The term is familiar to the young criminal. The social worker is able to explain the causes of this asocial behavior. But the delinquent could do it too, and in the very same terms.

Word Forms

• asocials

Synonyms for asocial

Depending on context, synonyms include antisocial.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include antisocial, anti-social, nonsocial, unsocialized, nonsocializing, nonsocialized.

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