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Definition of Taciturn
1. Adjective. Habitually reserved and uncommunicative.
Similar to: Buttoned-up, Reticent, Untalkative
Derivative terms: Taciturnity
Antonyms: Voluble
Definition of Taciturn
1. a. Habitually silent; not given to converse; not apt to talk or speak.
Definition of Taciturn
1. Adjective. Silent; temperamentally untalkative; disinclined to speak. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Taciturn
1. habitually silent [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Taciturn
Literary usage of Taciturn
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1899)
"He continued to enjoy the esteem and confidence of Sado- let, who had only one
fault to find with him —hi» solitary and taciturn disposition (Sad. ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1887)
"and the most taciturn face wore a grin bring down the house, the vicious emphasis
which we threw into our enemy's name sending his subordinates into a ..."
3. Frank Forester's Field Sports of the United States, and British Provinces by Henry William Herbert (1864)
""THE taciturn RABIES. •: Dumb madness forms the other and most frequent variety
in adult dogs, and which cases appear dependent on a less degree of active ..."
4. La Plata, the Argentine Confederation and Paraguay: Being a Narrative of the by Thomas Jefferson Page (1859)
"... if the taciturn Argentino loosened.—The Segundo.—Tio or Concepción.—Algor-
loba and Soil.—Arrival at Cordova.—List of Distances. ..."
5. La Plata, the Argentine Confederation and Paraguay: Being a Narrative of the by Thomas Jefferson Page (1859)
"The Tongue of the taciturn Argentine loosened.—The Segundo.—Tio or Concepcion.—Algor-
roba and Soil.—Arrival at Cordova. ..."
6. History of the Second War Between the United States of America and Great by Charles Jared Ingersoll (1852)
"... talkative and confident, for some days moody, taciturn, and uneasy, betrayed,
his detractors say, a blood-thirsty tyrant's remorseless guilt. ..."
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