Dictionary Definition
reserved adj
1 set aside for the use of a particular person or
party [ant: unreserved]
2 marked by self-restraint and reticence; "was
habitually reserved in speech, withholding her opinion"-Victoria
Sackville-West [ant: unreserved]
User Contributed Dictionary
Adjective
- In the context of "comparable": Slow to reveal
emotion or opinions.
- He was a quiet, reserved person.
- In the context of "not comparable": Set aside for the use of a particular
person or party.
- I'm sorry, sir, but these are reserved seats.
Translations
Slow to reveal emotion or opinions
- Finnish: pidättyväinen, varautunut
- Norwegian: reservert
set aside for the use of a particular person or
party
Related terms
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Olympian, Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, aloof, antisocial, aposiopestic, backward, bashful, blank, brief, brusque, ceremonious, chilled, chilly, clipped, close, close-lipped,
close-tongued, closemouthed, cold, compact, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, conserved, constrained, contracted, controlled, conventional, cool, crisp, curt, cut, demure, detached, diffident, dignified, discreet, distant, docked, elliptic, epigrammatic, expressionless, forbidding, formal, frigid, frosty, gnomic, guarded, held, held back, held in reserve,
ice-cold, icy, impassive, impersonal, inaccessible, incommunicable, introverted, kept, laconic, modest, modified, noncommittal, offish, pithy, pointed, poker-faced, preserved, prim, pruned, put by, quiet, remote, removed, repressed, restrained, retained, reticent, retiring, rigid, saved, sedate, sententious, short, short and sweet, shortened, shrinking, shy, silent, spare, standoff, standoffish, strait-laced,
subdued, succinct, summary, suppressed, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight, tight-lipped, tights, to the point, truncated, unaffable, unapproachable, uncommunicative,
uncongenial,
undemonstrative,
unemotional,
unexpansive,
ungenial, unresponsive, unsocial, withdrawn, withheld