Taciturn \Tac"i*turn\, a. [L. taciturnus: cf. F. taciturne. See
Tacit.]
Habitually silent; not given to converse; not apt to talk or
speak. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
taciturn
adj : habitually reserved and uncommunicative [ant: voluble]
WordNet (r) 2.0
61 Moby Thesaurus words for "taciturn":
Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, aposiopestic, brief, brooding,
brusque, clipped, close, close-lipped, close-tongued, closemouthed,
compact, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, contracted,
crisp, curt, cut, docked, dour, dumb, economical of words,
elliptic, epigrammatic, gnomic, indisposed to talk, laconic, mum,
mute, pithy, pointed, pruned, quiet, reserved, reticent,
sententious, short, short and sweet, shortened, silent, snug,
sparing of words, speechless, succinct, summary, synopsized, terse,
tight, tight-lipped, to the point, tongue-tied, truncated,
uncommunicative, unexpressive, unloquacious, untalkative,
word-bound, wordless
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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