reticent

Speech parts

1. reticent - Adjective

2. reticent - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Inclined to keep silent; reserved; uncommunicative.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

restrained reserved reluctant retiring unemotional self-effacing tight-lipped untalkative coy close private bashful remote distant silent

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Antonyms

frank fain frankish cavalier gabby social

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Phrases with the word

be very reticent be very reticent about be very reticent with someone

Examples

Anderson has no filter and is a self-confessed “oversharer” while Bartholemew said she is a little more reticent. Source: Internet

Cristina, an ardent supporter of Brazil's agribusinesses, knows her sector depends on exports to countries increasingly reticent about buying products from deforested land. Source: Internet

Day, an Ohio lawyer unfamiliar with diplomacy, was often reticent in meetings; Adee was somewhat deaf. Source: Internet

Doud Dwight "Icky" Eisenhower was born September 24, 1917, and died of scarlet fever on January 2, 1921, at the age of three; citation Eisenhower was mostly reticent to discuss his death. Source: Internet

A lot of bankers are reticent and with good reason, Live Oak’s Custer said. Source: Internet

As a Platonist Gödel was reticent in the presence of the logical positivism of the Vienna Circle. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

reticency reticense reticenses reticently retick reticket