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{
"source": "Thesaurus:taciturn",
"word": "talkative"
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{
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"word": "verbose"
}
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"word": "loquacious"
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"text": "The two sisters could hardly have been more different, one so boisterous and expressive, the other so taciturn and calm.",
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"ref": "1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 18",
"text": "We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14",
"text": "We spent a lot of time up on the staging of the great furnaces, trying to pick up the tricks of the trade from the taciturn furnacemen who sat around placidly smoking, or chewing twist, and occasionally throwing in more pig iron to the molten white-hot metal.",
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"Silent; temperamentally untalkative; disinclined to speak."
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"word": "tacit"
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{
"word": "tacitly"
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"word": "tacitness"
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"source": "Thesaurus:taciturn",
"word": "incommunicado"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:taciturn",
"word": "tight-lipped"
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{
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"word": "discreet"
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"word": "secretive"
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"source": "Thesaurus:taciturn",
"word": "concise"
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"source": "Thesaurus:taciturn",
"word": "stern"
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"word": "reticent"
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"word": "untalkative"
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"word": "quiet"
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"word": "reserved"
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"word": "silent"
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"word": "silentious"
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"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "maŭklívy",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "маўклі́вы"
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{
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"roman": "njehamanlívy",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "негаманлі́вы"
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"roman": "njetavarýski",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "нетавары́скі"
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"roman": "mǎlčalív",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "мълчали́в"
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "neobštítelen",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "необщи́телен"
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"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "taciturn"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "chénmòguǎyán",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "沉默寡言"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "chénmò",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "沉默"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "mlčenlivý"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "nemluvný"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "zwijgzaam"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "silentema"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "hiljainen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "jörö"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "taciturne"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "taciturno"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "siṭq̇vaʒviri",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "სიტყვაძვირი"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "siṭq̇vaʒunc̣i",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "სიტყვაძუნწი"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "enautkmeli",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "ენაუთქმელი"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "siṭq̇vautkmeli",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "სიტყვაუთქმელი"
},
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "sulgaḳmendili",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "სულგაკმენდილი"
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "sulganabuli",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "სულგანაბული"
},
{
"code": "ka",
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"roman": "usiṭq̇vo",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "უსიტყვო"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "schweigsam"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "wortkarg"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "maulfaul"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "verschwiegen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "kurzsilbig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "einsilbig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "sprechfaul"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "mundfaul"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "lakonikós",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "λακωνικός"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "oligólogos",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "ολιγόλογος"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "siopilós",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "σιωπηλός"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "ekhémuthos",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "ἐχέμυθος"
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{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "siōpētikós",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "σιωπητικός"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "hallgatag"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "tacera"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "tacema"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "taciturno"
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{
"alt": "むくちな",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "mukuchi na",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "無口な"
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{
"alt": "かもくな",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kamoku na",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "寡黙な"
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"code": "la",
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"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "taciturnus"
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"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "ḱutliv",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "ќутлив"
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"lang": "Macedonian",
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "whakarikiriki"
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{
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "hauarea"
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "hauwarea"
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{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "kam harf",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "کم حرف"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "kam guy",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "کم گوی"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "małomówny"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "milczący"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "milkliwy"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "taciturno"
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "molčalívyj",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "молчали́вый"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nerazgovórčivyj",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "неразгово́рчивый"
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{
"code": "ru",
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"sense": "untalkative, silent",
"word": "необщи́тельный"
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"code": "sh",
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"sense": "untalkative, silent",
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"code": "sh",
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"code": "sh",
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"code": "sh",
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"code": "sh",
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"code": "sl",
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"sense": "untalkative, silent",
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "untalkative, silent",
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"code": "sv",
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"word": "fåordig"
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "untalkative, silent",
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"code": "sv",
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
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"code": "uk",
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"roman": "movčaznýj",
"sense": "untalkative, silent",
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"code": "uk",
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{
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{
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{
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{
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"word": "tystlåten"
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