Taciturn

Quick meaning: Taciturn is an adjective meaning Silent; temperamentally untalkative; disinclined to speak.

Meaning

Silent; temperamentally untalkative; disinclined to speak.

Example Sentences

The two sisters could hardly have been more different, one so boisterous and expressive, the other so taciturn and calm.

We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

We spent a lot of time up on the staging of the great furnaces, trying to pick up the tricks of the trade from the taciturn furnacemen who sat around placidly smoking, or chewing twist, and occasionally throwing in more pig iron to the molten white-hot metal.

Synonyms for taciturn

Depending on context, synonyms include reticent, unloquacious, untalkative, quiet, reserved, silent.

Antonyms for taciturn

Common opposites include prolix, talkative, verbose, garrulous, loquacious, voluble.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include untalkative, reticent, buttoned-up, silentious, silent, dumb.

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