reticent

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Now yours is--reticent, darling.

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  1. adjective Inclined to keep one's thoughts, feelings, and personal affairs to oneself. See Synonyms at silent.
  2. adjective Restrained or reserved in style.
  3. adjective Reluctant; unwilling.

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  • Now yours is--reticent, darling. —  Plays : Fourth Series
  • My relations toward him echoed with the feelings I used to have for the reticent, omniscient boy of Abner's Court, and with the hoarse, studious young Talmudist with whom I would "famish in company." —  The Rise of David Levinsky
  • He had been born reticent, and great, indeed, was the emotion under which he suffered when the whole of his eyes were visible. —  The Patrician
  • Dick might naturally be reticent--but Cecily She did not even look towards the pear-tree, but turned and walked stiffly out of the gate. —  The Bell-Ringer of Angel's
  • 'I know I'm that, Miss Cally Well, I didn't mean it that way,' s'I, reticent--an' said no more, with the exception of what I'd rilly meant Why under the canopy,' I ask' him, for a hint, 'don't you take the Sum Merriman store, an' run it, an' live on your feet? —  Friendship Village
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin reticēns, reticent-, present participle of reticēre, to keep silent : re-, re- + tacēre, to be silent.

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  1. from Latin reticen(t-)s, present participle of reticere, be silent, from re-, again, + tacere, be silent: see tacit.
 

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/ˈrɛtɪsənt/
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