exclusive
Excluding items or members that do not meet certain conditions.
Other meanings
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.”
Antonyms
- non-exclusive
Related words
- exclusivism
- exclusivist
- exclusivize
- superexclusive
- ultraexclusive
- unexclusive
- XAND
- XNAND
- XNOR
- exclusively
- exclusiveness
- exclusive or
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “exclusive” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.