close-mouthed

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: adjective

[notusuallybeforenoun] not willing to say much about sth because you want to keep a secret

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

close-mouthedEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus close-mouthedEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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clone clonk close close-cropped closed closed-captioned closed-circuit television close-down closed season closed shop close-fitting

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Is close-mouthed a noun, verb, or something else?

In this entry, close-mouthed is tagged as adjective.

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close-mouthed