What are the antonyms for RETICENT?
- conversational, prolix, ready, happy, willing, mouthy, keen, outspoken, diffuse, communicative, rambling, eager, honest, outgoing, sure, unshy, blunt, free-spoken, out front, demonstrative, gossipy, loquacious, talebearing, talky, chatty, resolute, gabby, tactless, assertive, forward, vocal, inclined, unquestioning, enthusiastic, glad, determined, blabby, motormouthed, disposed, self-assertive, unrestrained, unreserved, long-winded, extroverted, windy, free, certain, confident, wordy, sociable, gregarious, self-asserting, talkative, verbose, decided.
Synonyms for RETICENT
- Self-restrained,
- chill,
- surreptitious,
- removed,
- pointer,
- non-gregarious,
- inconspicuous,
- have tight chops,
- mute,
- Silentious,
- unctuous,
- constrain,
- discreetly,
- unpresuming,
- Inconversable,
- hesitant,
- tight,
- intimate,
- unexpressive,
- secretive,
- shrinking,
- over-careful,
- lurk,
- orphic,
- under restraint,
- inaccessible,
- formality,
- judiciously,
- rolling with the punches,
- modify,
- restrain,
- obliqueness,
- dignified,
- frigid,
- exact,
- under cover,
- Unimpressible,
- curb,
- Inexcitable,
- retired,
- Unaffable,
- Hard-hearted,
- hermit-like,
- mincing,
- unwelcoming,
- uncommunicable,
- cautious,
- on leash,
- not saying boo,
- unpretending,
- demure,
- closemouthed,
- wordless,
- punctilio,
- haughty,
- frosty,
- blank,
- qualify,
- in charge,
- cool,
- far off,
- reluctant,
- rigid,
- put on airs,
- aloof,
- reticence,
- costive,
- hint,
- oppressive,
- restrained,
- conceal,
- corked up,
- dark,
- terse,
- unassured,
- mealymouthed,
- heedful,
- mysterious,
- on a leash,
- overcareful,
- get at,
- unsociable,
- unobtrusively,
- zipped one's lips,
- circumscribe,
- evasive,
- unhonored,
- etiquette,
- uncomfortable,
- timid,
- cunning,
- under control,
- compact,
- uneffusive,
- secrete,
- Nonvocal,
- indirect,
- ill at ease,
- loath,
- chary,
- chilled,
- covert,
- unimpassioned,
- going with the flow,
- succinct,
- constrained,
- coldblooded,
- shy,
- humble,
- taciturnity,
- inarticulate,
- vague,
- close-mouthed,
- incommunicative,
- timorous,
- laid back,
- Incommunicable,
- under ground,
- dried up,
- hermitic,
- unassertive,
- bound,
- deceitful,
- unexpansive,
- detail,
- unheard of,
- withdrawn,
- zipping one's lips,
- silent,
- unaggressive,
- mindful,
- rolling with punches,
- clammed up,
- modest,
- eremitic,
- restraint,
- moderate,
- uncommitted,
- unemotional,
- point,
- Equivocating,
- bashful,
- circumspect,
- diffident,
- reserve,
- noncommittal,
- uncongenial,
- retiring,
- parry,
- self-controlled,
- prudently,
- aim,
- punctiliousness,
- tongue-tied,
- oily,
- tightlipped,
- taciturn,
- hardboiled,
- nicety,
- averse,
- non-committal,
- unassuming,
- closelipped,
- hidden,
- impassive,
- attentive,
- Procacious,
- item,
- dumb,
- evade,
- decorum,
- matter of fact,
- iced,
- unheard,
- modesty,
- bind,
- attitude,
- quiet,
- artful,
- on lookout,
- discreet,
- Uncompanionable,
- repressed,
- meek,
- reticent,
- in the background,
- secluded,
- controlled,
- clandestine,
- struck dumb,
- unforthcoming,
- blushful,
- distant,
- unfriendly,
- stuck up,
- expressionless,
- roundabout,
- guarded,
- dummied up,
- mealy-mouthed,
- feline,
- introverted,
- uptight,
- unresponsive,
- cold,
- prim,
- past,
- embarrassed,
- backdoor,
- preceding,
- careful,
- hypocritical,
- not forward,
- unexcitable,
- disinclined,
- closed,
- buttoned up,
- strict,
- peculiarity,
- unapproachable,
- curt,
- ceremonious,
- indifferent,
- skulking,
- moment,
- confidential,
- laconic,
- ungenial,
- sedate,
- forbidding,
- overcautious,
- unenthusiastic,
- confined,
- ambiguous,
- unostentatious,
- unpretentious,
- irrelevant,
- invalided,
- sparing,
- cloak and dagger,
- Inobtrusive,
- un-talkative,
- nongregarious,
- matter-of-fact,
- standoffish,
- dried-up,
- unheard-of,
- parsimonious,
- wisely,
- coy,
- propriety,
- hot,
- unwilling,
- icy,
- stiff,
- chilly,
- confine,
- Shrouded,
- equivocal,
- offish,
- underhand,
- remote,
- concise,
- slick,
- prohibit,
- in chambers,
- backstairs,
- standoff,
- with eyes peeled,
- detached,
- speech,
- inhibited,
- Seclusive,
- close,
- supercilious,
- speechless,
- periphrastic,
- cagey,
- stingy,
- reduce,
- reclusive,
- cautiously,
- ungregarious,
- calm and collected,
- loth,
- anti-social,
- stoical,
- tight-lipped,
- strait-laced,
- indisposed,
- stealthy,
- restrict,
- submerge,
- mince (your) words,
- under wraps,
- sequestered,
- recluse,
- Unboastful,
- suppress,
- in privacy,
- unvocal,
- undemonstrative,
- dubious,
- Close-tongued,
- euphemistic,
- uneager,
- apprehensive,
- unsocial,
- over-modest,
- coldhearted,
- in private,
- Husher,
- prudent,
- furtive,
- imply,
- untalkative,
- close quarters,
- uncommunicative,
- in check,
- hedge,
- unspeaking,
- wary,
- overmodest,
- whist,
- closed up,
- unexcessive,
- enigmatical,
- seldom seen,
- skirt,
- tight chops,
- concealing,
- delicacy,
- along for the ride,
- suppressed,
- unobtrusive,
- solitary,
- tight-mouthed,
- Puncto,
- antisocial,
- ice-cold,
- conspiratorial,
- on the lookout,
- convey,
- could hear a pin drop,
- clamming up,
- Quieter,
- carefully,
- formal,
- secret,
- self-conscious,
- unnoted,
- mum,
- close-lipped,
- obscure,
- circumlocutory,
- backward,
- impersonal,
- quietest,
- suspicious,
- curtail,
- reserved,
- rabbity,
- forbid,
- low-key,
- private,
- unextreme,
- subdued,
- self-effacing,
- poker-faced,
- not talkative,
- sly,
- self-contained,
- stockpile,
- hushful,
- abashed,
- check.
Usage Examples for RETICENT
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At the Tuileries they look on him not only as a good dentist, but as a good friend; and, as some clever person said, " Though reticent to others, their Majesties had to open their mouths to him." - "In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875." by L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone
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Both of them were reticent. - "When Egypt Went Broke" by Holman Day