Taciturn
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English
Adjective
Taciturn (comparative more Taciturn, superlative most Taciturn)
- silent; temperamentally untalkative; disinclined to speak.
- closemouthed, reticent
Adverbs for Taciturn
provokingly; reticently; shyly; morosely; gloomily; observantly; amazingly; deliberately; habitually; naturally; unusually; incurably; usually; inexplicably; unaccountably; interestingly; curtly; laconically; notoriously; secretively; evasively; incredibly; strangely; usually; oddly; peculiarly; inveterately; consistently; extraordinarily.
Thesaurus
mute, pithy, pointed, pruned, quiet, reserved, reticent, sententious, short, short and sweet, shortened, silent, snug, sparing of words, speechless, succinct, summary, synopsized, terse, tight, tight-lipped, to the point, tongue-tied, truncated, uncommunicative, unexpressive, unloquacious, untalkative, word-bound, wordless, Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, aposiopestic, brief, brooding, brusque, clipped, close, close-lipped, close-tongued, closemouthed, compact, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, curt, cut, docked, dour, dumb, economical of words, elliptic, epigrammatic, gnomic, indisposed to talk, laconic, mum,
Etymology
From French taciturne or Latin taciturnus, from tacitus (“secret, tacit”).
Pronunciation
Synonyms
- (silent): reticent, untalkative
- See also Thesaurus:taciturn
Antonyms
- (silent): garrulous, loquacious
