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TACITURN
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Habitually reserved and uncommunicative
Classified under:
Similar:
buttoned-up ((British colloquial) not inclined to conversation)
reticent; untalkative (temperamentally disinclined to talk)
Also:
incommunicative; uncommunicative (not inclined to talk or give information or express opinions)
concise (expressing much in few words)
Antonym:
voluble (marked by a ready flow of speech)
Derivation:
taciturnity (the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary)
