What does taciturn mean?
Taciturn means Silent; temperamentally untalkative; disinclined to speak..
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/ˈtæsɪtɜːn/ · adjective
Silent; temperamentally untalkative; disinclined to speak..
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.
Use taciturn when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Taciturn means Silent; temperamentally untalkative; disinclined to speak..
Common synonyms include taciturn, reticent, unloquacious, untalkative.
Possible antonyms include prolix, talkative, verbose, garrulous.
The two sisters could hardly have been more different, one so boisterous and expressive, the other so taciturn and calm.
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