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TACITURN

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 I. (adjective) 

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Meaning:

Habitually reserved and uncommunicativeplay

Classified under:

Adjectives

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)

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