Word Meanings - RETICENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Inclined to keep silent; reserved; uncommunicative.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RETICENT)

• Taciturn
• Silent
• reserved
• inconversible
• uncommunicative
• close
• mute
• pauciloquous
• reticent

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RETICENT)

• Open
• initiate
• conduct
• protract

Related words: (words related to RETICENT)

• RESERVE
  1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen.
• CLOSEHANDED
  Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. -- Close"hand`ed*ness, n.
• PROTRACTIVE
  Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying. He suffered their protractive arts. Dryden.
• CLOSEFISTED
  Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne.
• CONDUCTIVITY
  The quality or power of conducting, or of receiving and transmitting, as, the conductivity of a nerve. Thermal conductivity , the quantity of heat that passes in unit time through unit area of plate whose thickness is unity, when its opposite faces
• PROTRACT
  Tedious continuance or delay. Spenser.
• RESERVOR
  One who reserves; a reserver.
• RESERVATIVE
  Tending to reserve or keep; keeping; reserving.
• CLOSEN
  To make close.
• CLOSER
  The last stone in a horizontal course, if of a less size than the others, or a piece of brick finishing a course. Gwilt. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, closes; specifically, a boot closer. See under Boot. 2. A finisher; that which finishes
• CLOSE-FIGHTS
  Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also close quarters.
• PROTRACTILE
  Capable of being protracted, or protruded; protrusile.
• CLOSEHAULED
  Under way and moving as nearly as possible toward the direction from which the wind blows; -- said of a sailing vessel.
• INITIATE
  1. To introduce by a first act; to make a beginning with; to set afoot; to originate; to commence; to begin or enter upon. How are changes of this sort to be initiated I. Taylor. 2. To acquaint with the beginnings; to instruct in the rudiments
• RESERVATION
  1. The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve. A. Smith. With reservation of an hundred knights. Shak. Make some reservation of your wrongs. Shak. 2. Something withheld, either not expressed
• SILENTIARY
  One appointed to keep silence and order in court; also, one sworn not to divulge secre
• CONDUCTRESS
  A woman who leads or directs; a directress.
• CONDUCTOR
  The leader or director of an orchestra or chorus. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, conducts; a leader; a commander; a guide; a manager; a director. Zeal, the blind conductor of the will. Dryden. 2. One in charge of a public conveyance, as
• CLOSE-BODIED
  Fitting the body exactly; setting close, as a garment. Ayliffe.
• RESERVOIR
  A small intercellular space, often containing Receiving reservoir , a principal reservoir into which an aqueduct or rising main delivers water, and from which a distributing reservoir draws its supply. (more info) 1. A place where anything is
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• UNCLOSE
  1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal.
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• PARCLOSE
  A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook.
• INCLOSER
  One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds.
• CLOSE
  to G. schliessen to shut, and to E. clot, cloister, clavicle, 1. To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door. 2. To bring together the parts of; to consolidate; as, to close the ranks of an army; -- often
• PERCLOSE
  See RALEIGH
• NONCONDUCTING
  Not conducting; not transmitting a fluid or force; thus, in electricity, wax is a nonconducting substance.
• MISCONDUCT
  Wrong conduct; bad behavior; mismanagement. Addison. Syn. -- Misbehavior; misdemeanor; mismanagement; misdeed; delinquency; offense.
• INTERCLOSE
  To shut in; to inclose.