reticent
C2CEFR level
60/100Rarity: rare
NeutralRegister
General adjective
Not disposed to reveal one's thoughts or feelings readily; reserved.
She was reticent about her past, deflecting every question with a polite change of subject.
Medicine adjective
Unwilling to reveal one's thoughts, feelings, or information readily.
She was reticent about her home situation until the nurse gently returned to the question later.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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