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What (who) is TACITURN - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Taciturnity; Taciturn (disambiguation)
taciturn
['tas?t?:n]
¦ adjective reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little.
Derivatives
taciturnity noun
taciturnly adverb
Origin
C18: from L. taciturnus, from tacitus (see tacit).
Taciturn
·adj Habitually silent; not given to converse; not apt to talk or speak.
taciturn
A taciturn person does not say very much and can seem unfriendly.
A taciturn man, he replied to my questions in monosyllables.
ADJ
Wikipedia
Taciturn
Taciturn or Taciturnity may refer to:
- HMS Taciturn (P334), a British submarine of the third group of the T class
- Silence
- Abandonment (legal) (known as taciturnity in Scots law), failure to assert a legal right in a way that implies abandonment of the right
- William the Silent (also known as William the Taciturn), leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish Habsburgs that set off the Eighty Years' War
Examples of use of TACITURN
1. He was taciturn, moody, constantly criticising me.
2. The notoriously taciturn Craig gives me an icy stare.
3. The lifestyle that these muscular, taciturn watchers protect is both enviable and claustrophobic.
4. Close associates attribute that taciturn approach to Mukasey‘s deep, though not blind, loyalty.
5. "If the UK has nothing to hide in which case why are they so taciturn?