TACITURN
Dictionary entry overview: What does taciturn mean? • TACITURN (adjective)
The adjective TACITURN has 1 sense:
1. habitually reserved and uncommunicative
Familiarity information: TACITURN used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• TACITURN (adjective)
Meaning:
Habitually reserved and uncommunicative
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)
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