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A Word A Day : Taciturn
Word of 8th May 2007: A Word A Day-Taciturn
Taciturn
He is taciturn to talk in front of a large audience.
Synonyms:
Mute
Quiet
Reserved
Reticent
Silent
Tight – lipped
Unforth coming
Withdrawn
Contextual Examples:
She remains mute all the time in prayer meeting.
Please can you keep the children quit while I am on the phone?
She is reserved by nature. She prefers to say alone.
He seemed strangely reticent about his past.
There are several questions I wanted to ask but I kept silent.
Antonyms:
Chatty
Communicative
Forth coming
Garrulous
Loquacious
Open
Outgoing
Sociable
Talkative
Verbose
Voluble
Wordy
Contextual Examples:
This small kid is very chatty. He always speaks something or the other.
I don’t find Sandeep very communicative. He is reserved.
He always becomes garrulous after a few glasses of wine.
Indian women are loquacious by nature.
He has an open heart, he doesn’t hide anything form his friends.
Deepak has never really been the sociable type.
What’s wrong with you? You are not talkative this evening.