Definition of "reticent" []

• Inclined to keep one's thoughts, feelings, and personal affairs to oneself. See Synonyms at silent. (adjective)
• Restrained or reserved in style. (adjective)
• Reluctant; unwilling. (adjective)

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• "Havel has been described as a reticent, modest, honest, courageous and a Renaissance man -- a man filled with a moral vision of what the quality of life should be for all people."
• "Mr. Catlin, who could hardly be called reticent, at once made plain his feeling about the Missouri, the river that was to carry them some two thousand miles into the mysterious reaches of the West."
• "Maria C. of Jersey City, NJ writes in with today's Mailbag Friday question: "My coworker always uses the word reticent when he really means reluctant."