Reticent
['retɪs(ə)nt] or ['rɛtɪsnt]
Definition
(adj.) reluctant to draw attention to yourself .
(adj.) temperamentally disinclined to talk .
Typist: Nelly--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Inclined to keep silent; reserved; uncommunicative.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Reserved, taciturn, silent (by habit).
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Silent, taciturn, voiceless, still, re-
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Examples
- In short, Mr Blandois found that to pour port wine into the reticent Flintwinch was, not to open him but to shut him up. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Lydgate too was reticent in the midst of his confidence. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- As to the details of his life during these years he was very reticent, in fact he would not talk of them at all. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Ah, he is not reticent about himself, said Crispin dryly. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- As his words are few and his manner reticent and tentative, so must the style of his interpreter be. Plato. The Republic.
- Thank you, sir,' returned that reticent individual. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He made Gerald uncertain, because, being tall and slender and reticent, he looked like a gentleman. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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