Reticent

Quick meaning: Reticent is an adjective meaning Unwilling to communicate; keeping one's thoughts and opinions to oneself; reserved or restrained.

Meaning

Unwilling to communicate; keeping one's thoughts and opinions to oneself; reserved or restrained.

More Meanings

1. (proscribed) Hesitant or not wanting to take some action; reluctant (usually followed by a verb in the infinitive).

Example Sentences

But they were not reticent enough to prevent the circulation of certain uneasy rumours and extravagant stories of discreditable adventures.

They are slow and reticent, and are like a dull good horse which lets every nag pass him, but with whip and spur will run down every racer in the field.

She had told him she was not now at Marlott, but had been curiously reticent as to her actual address, and the only course was to go to Marlott and inquire for it.

The milkman had been released, I read, and the true criminal, about whose identity the police were reticent, was believed to have got away from London by one of the northern lines.

Synonyms for reticent

Depending on context, synonyms include reserved, restrained, tight-lipped, closemouthed, reluctant, unwilling.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include reserved, taciturn, untalkative, self-effacing, undemonstrative, unemotional.

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