Another word for taciturn
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Adjective
Not speaking freely or openly
- Not disposed to be communicative.
- Characterized by reserve or a lack of expression:
- Impossible to communicate.
- Having the lips pressed together:
- Reluctant to speak; close-mouthed.
- Characterized by restraint or reserve in expression:
- Marked by absence of noise or sound; still:
- Not inclined to speak; not talkative:
- Not speaking or refraining from speech:
- Inclined to keep one's thoughts, feelings, and personal affairs to oneself.
- Restrained or reserved:
- Reluctant; unwilling.
- Designated as unavailable except for a certain purpose or user; kept in reserve:
- Given to or marked by self-restraint and reticence:
- Not disposed to be forthcoming or communicative; uncommunicative:
- Impossible to be transmitted; not communicable:
- Incommunicative:
- Disposed not to talk; tightlipped.
- Being near in space or time.
- Being near in relationship:
- Bound by mutual interests, loyalties, or affections; intimate:
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Another word for taciturn
Modifier
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- Given to or marked by prudence and restraint in the use of material resources.
- Deficient or limited in quantity, fullness, or extent:
- Terse and energetic in expression; pithy.
- Full of or given to using aphorisms, especially in a pompously moralizing manner.
- Disposed not to talk; tightlipped.
- Rudely brief or abrupt, as in speech or manner:
- Terse or condensed:
- Not verbalizing; silent.
- Used as a command to stop speaking.
- Being near in space or time.
- Being near in relationship:
- Bound by mutual interests, loyalties, or affections; intimate:
- Lacking the faculty of speech.
- Temporarily unable to speak, as through astonishment.
- Refraining from speech; silent.
- Refraining from producing speech or vocal sound.
- Unable to speak.
- Unable to vocalize, as certain animals.
- Marked by absence of noise or sound; still:
- Not inclined to speak; not talkative:
- Not speaking or refraining from speech:
- Not disposed to be communicative.
- Characterized by reserve or a lack of expression:
- Inclined to keep one's thoughts, feelings, and personal affairs to oneself.
- Restrained or reserved:
- Reluctant; unwilling.
Antonyms:
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