Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (3)
1. temperamentally disinclined to talk;
[syn: reticent, untalkative]
2. cool and formal in manner;
[syn: restrained, reticent, unemotional]
3. reluctant to draw attention to yourself;
[syn: reticent, self-effacing, retiring]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Reticent \Ret"i*cent\, a. [L. reticens, p. pr. of reticere to keep silence; re- + tacere to be silent. See Tacit.] Inclined to keep silent; reserved; uncommunicative. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
55 Moby Thesaurus words for "reticent": Olympian, aloof, backward, bashful, blank, chilled, chilly, close, close-lipped, close-tongued, closemouthed, cold, constrained, cool, detached, discreet, distant, expressionless, forbidding, frigid, frosty, guarded, icy, impassive, impersonal, inaccessible, introverted, modest, offish, quiet, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, retiring, shrinking, shy, silent, standoff, standoffish, subdued, suppressed, taciturn, tight-lipped, timid, unaffable, unapproachable, uncommunicative, uncongenial, undemonstrative, unexpansive, ungenial, unresponsive, withdrawn

