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Secluded vs Outlying - What's the difference?

secluded | outlying |

As adjectives the difference between secluded and outlying

is that secluded is hidden, isolated, remote while outlying is relatively remote from some central location.

As a verb secluded

is (seclude).

As a noun outlying is

a region relatively remote from a central location.

secluded

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Hidden, isolated, remote.

    • Synonyms

    * off the grid * isolated

    Verb

    (head)
  • (seclude)

    • outlying

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Relatively remote from some central location.
    • The more outlying villages were never visited by their member of parliament.
  • Located outside of some boundary or limit.
    • When the map was redrawn after the war, our cousin found herself living in outlying territory.

    Related terms

    * outlier

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A region relatively remote from a central location.
  • * 1975 , United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Environmental Pollution, Water Pollution Control Act of 1972: Effect on Small Communities
    • The other areas and the outlyings will have to come in at a later date, although the council wrestles with that periodically. But the amount of money involved would be substantial.

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