Reserved

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Held in reserve; kept back or set aside.
  • adj. Marked by self-restraint and reticence. See Synonyms at silent.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Simple past tense and past participle of reserve.
  • adj. Slow to reveal emotion or opinions.
  • adj. Set aside for the use of a particular person or party.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Kept for future or special use, or for an exigency.
  • adj. Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward, or cautious, in communicating one's thoughts and feelings; not free or frank.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. marked by self-restraint and reticence
  • adj. set aside for the use of a particular person or party
  • Equivalent
    withdrawn    distant    diffident    upstage    indrawn    aloof    set-aside    engaged    booked    bookable   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Verb Stem
    re-serve    reserve   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    conserved    curved    deserved    observed    preserved    served    swerved    underserved    undeserved    unnerved