Kept for another or future use; retained; kept back.Showing reserve in behavior; backward in communicating one's thoughts; not open, free, or frank; distant; cold; shy; coy.Retired; secluded.In decorative art, left of the color of the background, as when another color is worked upon the ground to form a new ground, the pattern being left of the first color.Synonyms Excepted, withheld.Restrained, cautious, uncommunicative, unsocial, unsociable, taciturn.