Taciturn

Adjective

 * 1) silent; temperamentally untalkative; disinclined to speak.
 * 2) closemouthed, reticent

Adverbs for Taciturn
provokingly; reticently; shyly; morosely; gloomily; observantly; amazingly; deliberately; habitually; naturally; unusually; incurably; usually; inexplicably; unaccountably; interestingly; curtly; laconically; notoriously; secretively; evasively; incredibly; strangely; usually; oddly; peculiarly; inveterately; consistently; extraordinarily.

Thesaurus
mute, pithy, pointed, pruned, quiet, reserved, reticent, sententious, short, short and sweet, shortened, silent, snug, sparing of words, speechless, succinct, summary, synopsized, terse, tight, tight-lipped, to the point, tongue-tied, truncated, uncommunicative, unexpressive, unloquacious, untalkative, word-bound, wordless, Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, aposiopestic, brief, brooding, brusque, clipped, close, close-lipped, close-tongued, closemouthed, compact, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, crisp, curt, cut, docked, dour, dumb, economical of words, elliptic, epigrammatic, gnomic, indisposed to talk, laconic, mum,

Etymology
From taciturne: or  taciturnus:, from tacitus:.

Synonyms

 * reticent, untalkative
 * See also Thesaurus:taciturn

Antonyms

 * garrulous, loquacious

Derived terms

 * taciturnity
 * taciturnly

Related terms

 * tacit
 * tacitly
 * tacitness

Translations

 * Catalan: taciturn
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * French: taciturne
 * Greek: ,,λιγομίλητος


 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 寡黙
 * Macedonian: ќутлив, молчелив
 * Russian: молчаливый, неразговорчивый
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: fåordig, tystlåten

Anagrams

 * tinctura, urticant