taciturn
Adjective
- Habitually silent or reserved in conversation; uncommunicative.
- habitually reserved and uncommunicative
Adj
- Silent; temperamentally untalkative; disinclined to speak.
Examples
- The TACITURN Scrabble player rarely spoke, letting her high scores do all the talking.
- The two sisters could hardly have been more different, one so boisterous and expressive, the other so taciturn and calm.
Origin / Etymology
Back-formation from taciturnity, from Middle English taciturnite, from Latin taciturnitās; or alternatively from French taciturne, likely reinforced by Latin taciturnus, from tacitus (“secret, tacit”).
Synonyms
quiet, reserved, reticent, silent, silentious, taciturn, unloquacious, untalkative
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 10
taciturn: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordtaciturn: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
taciturn: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary