taciturn
pronunciation
How to pronounce taciturn in British English:
UK [ˈtæsɪtɜ:n]
How to pronounce taciturn in American English:
US [ˈtæsɪtɜrn]
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- Adjective:
- habitually reserved and uncommunicative
Word Origin
- taciturn (adj.)
- "habitually silent," 1771, back-formation from taciturnity, or from French taciturne (15c.), from Latin taciturnus "not talkative, noiseless."
Antonym
Example
- 1. The usually taciturn mr diskin 's remarks were promptly endorsed by meir dagan , a long-serving past director of mossad , the external intelligence service .
- 2. Before he drove away , my mother took him aside and showed him how to run a dishwasher . He is taciturn to the point of being rude .
- 3. Hillary clinton , his designated secretary of state , and joe biden , the vice-president-elect and foreign policy expert , have also been uncharacteristically taciturn on the subject .
- 4. In his book " democracy in america " , alexis de tocqueville refers to the " strange unsociability and reserved and taciturn disposition of the english " .