Taciturn

Definition: Taciturn

Taciturn

Adjective

1. Habitually reserved and uncommunicative.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "taciturn" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1813. (references)

Etymology: Taciturn \Tac"i*turn\, adjective. [Latin expression taciturnus: compare to the French expression taciturne. See Tacit.]. (references)

Synonym: Taciturn

Concealment

Obrep furtive, stealthy, feline; skulking; Verb: surreptitious, underhand, hole and corner; sly; (cunning).; secretive, evasive; reserved, reticent, uncommunicative, buttoned up; close, close as wax; taciturn.

Taciturnity

Taciturn, sparing of words; closetongued; costive, inconversable, curt; reserved; reticent; (concealing).

Crosswords: Taciturn

Romanian (close-lipped, saturnine, silent, sullen, taciturn).

Books

• The Taciturn Text: The Fiction of Robert Penn Warren (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Taciturn Tales [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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This taciturn grating was a receiver

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Albanian

i heshtur (antisocial, cagey, cagy, catlike, close-mouthed, dumb, latent, mute, quiet, silent, sleepy, tight lipped, wordless), fjalëpakë (chary, discreet, inconvertible, laconic, reticent, silent). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كتوم (close, discreet, reserved, reticent, secretive), ‏متحفظ (aloof, aloofness, careful, cautious, close, discreet, incommunicable, incommunicative, reserved, reticent, secretive, self contained, stand offish, uncommunicative, wary), ‏قليل الكلام (reticent, silent), ‏سكيت, ‏صموت (reticent, uncommunicative). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сдържан (aloof, buttoned up, chary, composed, continent, coy, distant, modest, offish, remote, reserved, restrained, reticent, retiring, stand offish, unaffable, uncommunicative, undemonstrative, undramatic, unemotional, unsociable, unsocial), необщителен (antisocial, dissociable, dissocial, dry, incommunicable, incommunicative, morose, reserved, reticent, segregative, self contained, uncommunicative, unneighborly, unneighbourly, unsociable, unsocial, withdrawn), мълчалив (buttoned up, mum, mute, quiet, secret, secretive, silent, tight lipped, tongue tied, uncommunicative, unspoken). (various references)

Czech

uzavřený (cagey, cagy, closed, incestuous, pent, recluse, retiring, select, unapproachable, withdrawn), mlèenlivý (decretive, silent, uncommunicative, voiceless), málomluvný (reticent, tightlipped). (various references)

Farsi 

کم گفتار, کم حرف (Laconic, Spare, Uncommunicative), کم سخن , خاموش (Quiet, Silent, Still, Tacit, Uncommunicative, Whist), ارام (Bland, Calm, Daft, Douce, Gentle, Hush, Imperturbable, Moderate, Pacific, Peaceable, Peaceful, Placid, Quiet, Sedate, Serene, Silent, Staid, Tranquil, Unblenched, Unruffled, Whist). (various references)

Finnish

vaitelias (reticent, silent, uncommunicative), vähäpuheinen (of few words, uncommunicative), hiljainen (dull, low, quiet, silent, still), harvapuheinen (uncommunicative). (various references)

French

taciturne. (various references)

German

schweigsam (discreet, quiet, reticent, silent, taciturnly, uncommunicative). (various references)

Greek 

λιγόλογοσ (reticent), ολιγόλογοσ (laconic). (various references)

Hebrew 

ממעט במלים (terse), שתקן (reticent, silent), שתק� י (reticent, silent, tightlipped). (various references)

Hungarian

hallgatag (dry, dumb, incommunicable, reticent, silent, tight-lipped). (various references)

Italian

taciturno (dumb, glum, quiet, saturnine, uncommunicative). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

口が重い (incommunicative), 口数が少い . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

くちがおもい (incommunicative), くちかずがすくない. (various references)

Manx

tostagh (incommunicative, noiseless, reserved, reticent, silence, silent, tacit), fastagh (cautious in speech, grave, inarticulate, modest, mum, noncommittal, pensive, quiet, secretive, tight-lipped, uncommunicative). (various references)

Pig Latin

aciturntay.(various references)

Portuguese

taciturno (moody, morose, mumpish, reticent, silent, spleenful, sullen, uncommunicative), reservado (aloof, box, cagey, chilly, close, closet, confidential, demure, distant, exclusive, freezing, incommunicative, long run, non-committal, offish, particular, qualified, repulsive, reserved, reticent, retiring, secretive, self-contained, separate, shy, special, stand-off, stand-offish, unamenable, uncommunicative, undemonstrative), de poucas palavras (self-contained). (various references)

Romanian

taciturn (close-lipped, saturnine, silent, sullen), om tãcut, mocnit (dark, dull, gloomy, reticent, smoldering, smouldering). (various references)

Russian 

молчаливый (inarticulate, mum, mute, silent, tacit, tight lipped, tight-lipped). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uzdržan (composed, forbearing, offish, reserved, restrained, undemonstrative), rezervisan (aloof, booked, reserved), nepričljiv. (various references)

Spanish

taciturno (glum, morose, sullen, uncommunicative). (various references)

Swedish

tystlåten (aciturn, reticent, saturnine, secretive, silent, tight lipped), fåordig (laconic, of few words). (various references)

Thai

เงียบขรึม. (various references)

Turkish

suskun (mute, reticent, self contained, silent, speechless, tongue tied), sessiz (close-tongued, dumb, hushed, mum, mute, muted, noiseless, nonviolent, non-violent, quiescent, quiet, reserved, reticent, silent, soundless, speechless, still, surd, tacit, tuneless, unvoiced, voiceless, without a sound, wordless). (various references)

Ukrainian

мовчазний (broody, dumb, inarticulate, mum, mute, obmutescent, quiescent, reticent, silent, soundless, stilly, tacit, tight lipped, uncommunicative, wordless). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lầm lì (close-mouthed, saturnine), ít nói (close-mouthed, coy, silent, tight-lipped). (various references)

Welsh

tawedog (silent), dywedwst (taciturnity). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "taciturn": taciturnities, taciturnity. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Taciturn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tacitern, tacitirn, tacituen, taciture, taciturm, tacoturn, tactieren, tactiturn, tactiurn, tacturn, teciturn, Tikitere. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: urticant.

-1 letter: curtain, tantric.

-2 letters: anuric, intact, nutria, truant, tunica, uranic, uratic.

-3 letters: actin, antic, attic, auric, cairn, curia, cutin, incur, naric, riant, runic, rutin, tacit, taint, taunt, tinct, titan, tract, train, trait, triac, tunic, uncia.

-4 letters: airn, airt, anti, aunt, cain, cant, carn, cart, curn, curt, narc, rain, rani, rant, ruin, runt, tact, tain, tarn.

+1 letter: urticants.

+2 letters: eructating, eructation, truncating, truncation, unartistic, urticating, urtication.

+3 letters: anticruelty, astronautic, continuator, curtailment, eructations, haircutting, matriculant, micturating, natriuretic, reluctating, reluctation, rusticating, rustication, subtracting, subtraction, taciturnity, truncations, uncertainty, unpatriotic, urtications.

+4 letters: anticultural, antipruritic, articulating, articulation, astronautics, carburetting, continuators, counterstain, curtailments, encrustation, haircuttings, inarticulate, incrustation, interfaculty, matriculants, natriuretics, naturalistic, naturopathic, neutralistic, obscurantist, protactinium, putrefaction, reluctations, reticulating, reticulation, rustications, subantarctic, subtractions, transduction, trifurcating, trifurcation, unattractive, unconstraint, undistracted.