asocial

1. 1.

   given to avoiding association with others

   “bears are asocial secretive animals”

   “are you asocial or do you just enjoy living in the Antarctic?”

   Similarunsocial
2. 2.

   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”

   Synonymsantisocial

   Similarunsocial

Questions about asocial

What does asocial mean?

asocial means "given to avoiding association with others". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in asocial?

asocial has 4 syllables: a-so-ci-al. The stress falls on "ci".

What is another word for asocial?

Close synonyms include antisocial. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is asocial a common word?

asocial is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.