Usually means: Reluctant to express thoughts openly.
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  1. reticent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. reticent: Merriam-Webster
  3. reticent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. reticent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. reticent: Collins English Dictionary
  6. reticent: Vocabulary.com
  7. Reticent, reticent: Wordnik
  8. reticent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. reticent: Wiktionary
  10. reticent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. reticent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. reticent: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Reticent, reticent: Dictionary.com
  14. reticent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Reticent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. reticent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. reticent: Rhymezone
  18. reticent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. reticent: FreeDictionary.org
  20. reticent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. reticent: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. reticent: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. reticent: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reticent: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. reticent: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See reticently as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Keeping one's thoughts and opinions to oneself; reserved or restrained.
adjective:  (proscribed) Hesitant or not wanting to take some action; reluctant (usually followed by a verb in the infinitive).

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