What is "closemouthed" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does closemouthed mean in English? Meaning of closemouthed definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "closemouthed" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "closemouthed": inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information

Adjective

  • Meaning: inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information
  • Example: although they knew her whereabouts her friends kept close about it
  • Synonyms: close closelipped closemouthed secretive tightlipped
  • Similar: incommunicative uncommunicative
  • Adjective: reticent, secretive or uncommunicative 1852 James Fenimore Cooper - Home as found As much so as possible; they have hardly a way that you would like, my dear ma'am; and are as closemouthed as if they were afraid of committing themselves. 2001 C. R. Anderegg - Sierra Hotel: flying Air Force fighters in the decade after Vietnam Instructors were notoriously closemouthed about their gunnery techniques.1852 James Fenimore Cooper - Home as found As much so as possible; they have hardly a way that you would like, my dear ma'am; and are as closemouthed as if they were afraid of committing themselves.2001 C. R. Anderegg - Sierra Hotel: flying Air Force fighters in the decade after Vietnam Instructors were notoriously closemouthed about their gunnery techniques.
  • Synonyms:

    close, hush-hush, quiet, reticent, sedate, taciturn, tight-lipped, uncommunicative, buttoned up, clammed up, close-lipped, dummied up, have tight chops, on the Q. T., zipped one's lips,

    Antonyms:

    chatty, talkative, open,

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