exclusive
Excluding items or members that do not meet certain conditions.
Adjective 4 meanings
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 social status, religion, skin colour etc., are excluded.
“Exclusive clubs tend to serve exclusive brands of food and drinks, in the same exorbitant price range, such as the 'finest' French châteaux.”
Exclusionary.
Noun 3 meanings
Information (or an artefact) that is granted or obtained exclusively.
“The editor agreed to keep a lid on a potentially disastrous political scoop in exchange for an exclusive of a happier nature.”
A member of a group who excludes others from their society.
A word or phrase that restricts something, such as only, solely, or simply.
Etymology
From Latin exclūsīvus, from excludere (“to shut out, exclude”), from ex- (“out”) + variant form of verb claudere (“to close, shut”).
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EXCLUSIVE at a glance
EXCLUSIVE has 9 letters and scores 21 points in Scrabble (E 1 + X 8 + C 3 + L 1 + U 1 + S 1 + I 1 + V 4 + E 1) and 25 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,617 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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