Entry Word: reticent

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 given to keeping oneʼs activities hidden from public observation or knowledge <the panel decided to investigate the company, which has always been reticent about its internal operations, for fraud> — see secretive
2 tending not to speak frequently (as by habit or inclination) <her husband is by nature a reticent person, and she resigned herself to that fact long ago> — see silent 2