~ (about sth) unwilling to tell people about things:
She was shy and reticent. * He was extremely reticent about his personal life.
reticence noun [U] (formal):
That night she had overcome her natural reticence and talked about their married life.
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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.
This entry for reticent is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is reticent a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, reticent is tagged as adjective.
Does reticent appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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