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
• exclusive or
• exclusive right
• exclusivity
• mutually exclusive

Related terms

• exclusion
• exclude
• excludent (discrimination).

Exclusive typically means not with other things or not including other things.

The terms inclusive and exclusive are contrasting terms, and often appear in the same context to describe contrasting things.

Exclusive may refer to:

In mathematics and logic:

• Exclusive or, this operator is true if either but not both arguments are true, see exclusive disjunction
• Exclusive means that the endpoints of a range are not included within the set, see interval (mathematics)

In linguistics:

• Exclusive we, or we excluding you, refers to first-person non-singular pronouns that do not include the addressee, see clusivity

In taxes:

• Exclusive can refer to a tax system that does not include taxes owed as part of the base, see tax rates

Other uses:

• 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
• "Exclusive" is the online nickname of Dutch poker professional Noah Boeken