Synonym: reserved, restrained, retiring, self-effacing, unemotional, untalkative. Similar words: heretic, theoretical, licentious, retirement, apprenticeship, retire, license, retired. Meaning: ['restɪsnt] 
adj. 1. temperamentally disinclined to talk 2. cool and formal in manner 3. reluctant to draw attention to yourself.
adj. 1. temperamentally disinclined to talk 2. cool and formal in manner 3. reluctant to draw attention to yourself. 
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31. Few of them cared to talk about their jobs; they were as reticent as veterans of an unpopular war.
32. One needs to listen carefully to any client, but older people may be more reticent about disclosure to a stranger.
33. However, since then the police have been remarkably reticent about the exact quantity of drugs which they recovered.
34. The Cun appeared to be reticent about arguing with them.
35. McLaren keeps his own counsel, being as reticent as Ferguson is gregarious.
36. Come Sunday you're more withdrawn and reticent so any hassle or hitch will prove too much to cope with.
37. Simon was not reticent in expressing his dislike for the Jaguar-driving members who had previously snubbed him.
38. However, the picture is confused further. On no other topic were these former officers of the Liverpool City so reticent.
39. Shared a house with other people; was gay but so far reticent about discussing it in such a predominantly heterosexual group.
40. It was a matter upon which he was reticent.
41. Aunty Henny was an outgoing but reticent person.
42. He was reticent, patrician, bookish, urbane.
43. He remained a gangly, reticent figure hovering at the edge of our family life.
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45. No one could elicit any response out of the reticent little girl.
46. So I lips reticent, but grateful that he still pens.
47. Mrs. Smith, normally a reticent woman, took it upon herself to write to the President.
48. Recent insurgent attacks are likely to make banks even more reticent.
49. The spill dishearten us all and, I believe, makes the public a little more reticent to assume a smooth recovery.
50. " No. " The answer was both reticent and impersonally sad.
51. The decathlon in the summer of 1984 quickly became a personal battle reticent , calm Hingsen.
52. The miner's son, who was a top judge and WRU president, was always modest and reticent to talk about his heroism.
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53. Never discuss company business and people where strangers can overhear. Even in private, be reticent.
54. Never discuss company business people where strangers can overhear. Even in private, reticent.
55. A misunderstood Capricorn Moon withdraws into solitude, reticent to share its feelings.
56. In retrospect, it seems clear why she might have felt that way, but Moniz reports that after a frontal lobotomy she was cured, "though possibly a little reticent."
57. He was reticent about his past [ on family affairs ].
58. Solitude is a reticent hitman who effluences bullets of painful get me through.
More similar words: heretic, theoretical, licentious, retirement, apprenticeship, retire, license, retired, retinue, discretion, justice, genetic, ascetic, athletic, pathetic, practice, aesthetic, magnetic, cosmetic, energetic, give notice, do justice, aesthetics, in practice, Cent., arithmetic, kinesthetic, take notice of, scent, out of practice.