Adjective

exclusive (comparative more exclusive, superlative most exclusive)

Positive exclusive

Comparative more exclusive

Superlative most exclusive

1. (literally) Excluding items or members that do not meet certain conditions.
2. (figuratively) Referring to a membership organisation, service or product: of high quality and/or reknown, for superior members only. A snobbish usage, suggesting that members who do not meet requirements, which may be financial, of celebrity, 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

3. exclusionary
4. whole, undivided, entire

   The teacher's pet commands the teacher's exclusive attention

Antonyms

• inclusive
• non-exclusive

Derived terms

• exclusively
• exclusiveness
• exclusivity

Related terms

• exclusion
• exclude
• excludent (discrimination).

Exclusive may refer to:

• In journalism, exclusive can refer to information provided to or available from only one news outlet, such as an interview or photograph.
• In the description of any formally defined set, the rules by which an object may be defined as excluded from the set are referred to as rules of exclusion.
• In the description of a mathematical set, the term exclusive denotes that the endpoints of a range are not included within the set. For example, "the integers -2 to 2 exclusive" refers to the set {-1,0,1}; the endpoints, -2 and 2, are excluded. The term is generally applied to discrete elements.
• Exclusive or, an operator in Boolean logic
• Exclusive we in linguistics refers to first-person non-singular pronouns that don't include the addressee, i.e. we excluding you
• Exclusive (album), the name of R&B singer Chris Brown's second album
• Exclusive (EP), an EP by U2
• Exclusive (play), a 1989 play by Jeffrey Archer