taciturn
C1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
LiteraryRegister
General adjective
Reserved; saying very little.
Her taciturn uncle rarely spoke at dinner.
Medicine adjective
Reserved or reluctant to speak much, especially by habitual disposition.
The elderly farmer was taciturn throughout the consultation, answering only in single words.
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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