reticent

not open, reserved, secretive

TRANSLATION

schweigsam, verschwiegen, zurückhaltend

STATISTICS

IN THE PRESS

"Putin emerges from the narrative as a reliable, honest, hardworking person, a no-nonsense and somewhat RETICENT man,... He is presented as a democratically minded and patriotic statesman who will lead Russia into the 21st century"

(Yuri Rarakhovich inTime Europe - Wednesday, April 19, 2000)

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Reticent comes from the Latin reticent-, reticens, present participle of reticEre to keep silent, from re- + tacEre to be silent

Date: circa 1834

Synonyms:

reluctant
reserved
uncommunicative
silent

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