Reticent - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ˈretɪsnt|
Brit.
|ˈretɪs(ə)nt|
adjective
- temperamentally disinclined to talk
- cool and formal in manner (syn: restrained)
- reluctant to draw attention to yourself (syn: retiring)
- cool and formal in manner (syn: restrained)
- reluctant to draw attention to yourself (syn: retiring)
Extra examples
...the panel decided to investigate the fraud charges against the company, which has always been reticent about its internal operations...
...her husband is by nature a reticent person, and she resigned herself to that fact long ago...
She's strangely reticent about her son.
... his friends and associates are conspicuously reticent to discuss him in public.
... two or three rather reticent abstract paintings.
An extremely reticent man, Morris does not like to talk about his experience in personal terms.
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