Synonyms & Antonyms : Taciturn





Taciturn



( Adjective )


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Withdrawn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.




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