reserved
reserved is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward, or cautious, in communicating one's thoughts and feelings; not free or frank. To all obliging, yet reserved to all. Walsh. Nothing reserved or sullen was to see. Dryden. -- Re*serv"ed*ly (r, adv. -- Re*serv"ed*ness, n.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- and
- background
- bashful
- bashfulness
- beat
- between
- bite
- blush
- blushing
- bridle
- bushel
- button
- candle
- cast
- cave
- ceremony
- close
- concealment
- constrained
- constraint
- costive
- costiveness
- counsel
- countenance
- coy
- curt
- curtness
- demure
- demureness
- diffidence
- diffident
- disposition
- distance
- draw
- drum
- dumb
- escape
- eye
- face
- fame
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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