>>shut-in comes close, in its second usage:
2. Disposed to avoid social contact; excessively withdrawn or introverted. [AHD4]


>Shut-in is good but it might be meant to apply to someone who is kept indoors for valid reasons such as illness.

well yeah; that was, of course, the first sense given by AHD.
-ron (shut-in nonetheless -- it's cold out there) o.

Last edited by tsuwm; 12/09/05 05:17 PM.