| Pronunciation: | | ri'zurvd
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| Matching Terms: | | reserve, reserve account, reserve assets, reserve bank, reserve city, reserve fund, reserve officers training corps, reserve(a), reserved memory, reservedly, reservee, reserver, reserves
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- [adj] cool and formal in manner
- [adj] marked by self-restraint and reticence; "was habitually reserved in speech, withholding her opinion"-Victoria Sackville-West
- [adj] set aside for the use of a particular person or party
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| | Synonyms: | | aloof, bookable, booked, diffident, distant, engaged, indrawn, rarefied, rarified, restrained, reticent, set-aside(p), undemonstrative, unemotional, withdrawn |
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| | Antonyms: | | unreserved |
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| | See Also: | | backward, inhibited |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Re*served"\ (-z?rvd"), a.
1. Kept for future or special use, or for an exigency; as,
reserved troops; a reserved seat in a theater.
2. Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward, or
cautious, in communicating one's thoughts and feelings;
not free or frank.
To all obliging, yet reserved to all. --Walsh.
Nothing reserved or sullen was to see. --Dryden.
-- {Re*serv"ed*ly} (r?-z?rv"?d-l?), adv. --
{Re*serv"ed*ness}, n.
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