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Taciturn

//ˈtæsɪtɜːn// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Silent; temperamentally untalkative; disinclined to speak.

    "The two sisters could hardly have been more different, one so boisterous and expressive, the other so taciturn and calm."

Adjective
  1. 1
    habitually reserved and uncommunicative wordnet

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”).

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