Reticent \Ret"i*cent\, a. [L. reticens, p. pr. of reticere to
keep silence; re- + tacere to be silent. See Tacit.]
Inclined to keep silent; reserved; uncommunicative.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
reticent
adj 1: temperamentally disinclined to talk [syn: untalkative]
2: cool and formal in manner [syn: reserved, restrained, unemotional]
3: reluctant to draw attention to yourself [syn: self-effacing]
WordNet (r) 2.0
55 Moby Thesaurus words for "reticent":
Olympian, aloof, backward, bashful, blank, chilled, chilly, close,
close-lipped, close-tongued, closemouthed, cold, constrained, cool,
detached, discreet, distant, expressionless, forbidding, frigid,
frosty, guarded, icy, impassive, impersonal, inaccessible,
introverted, modest, offish, quiet, remote, removed, repressed,
reserved, restrained, retiring, shrinking, shy, silent, standoff,
standoffish, subdued, suppressed, taciturn, tight-lipped, timid,
unaffable, unapproachable, uncommunicative, uncongenial,
undemonstrative, unexpansive, ungenial, unresponsive, withdrawn
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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