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# [[silent|Silent]]; temperamentally [[untalkative]]; [[disinclined]] to speak.
# [[silent|Silent]]; temperamentally [[untalkative]]; [[disinclined]] to speak.
#: {{ux|en|The two sisters could hardly have been more different, one so boisterous and expressive, the other so '''taciturn''' and calm.}}
#: {{ux|en|The two sisters could hardly have been more different, one so boisterous and expressive, the other so '''taciturn''' and calm.}}
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#* {{quote-book|en|year=1813|author=[[s:Author:Jane Austen|Jane Austen]]|title=[[s:Pride and Prejudice|Pride and Prejudice]]|section=[[s:Pride and Prejudice/Chapter 18|Chapter 18]]|passage=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.}}
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#* {{quote-journal|en|year=1945|month=January and February||author=A Former Pupil|title=Some Memories of Crewe Works—III|journal=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.}}
#: {{syn|en|reticent|untalkative|Thesaurus:taciturn}}
#: {{syn|en|reticent|untalkative|Thesaurus:taciturn}}
#: {{ant|en|garrulous|loquacious}}
#: {{ant|en|garrulous|loquacious}}
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#* {{quote-book|en|year=1813|author=[[s:Author:Jane Austen|Jane Austen]]|title=[[s:Pride and Prejudice|Pride and Prejudice]]|section=[[s:Pride and Prejudice/Chapter 18|Chapter 18]]|passage=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.}}
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#* {{quote-journal|en|year=1945|month=January and February||author=A Former Pupil|title=Some Memories of Crewe Works—III|journal=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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Revision as of 15:01, 22 June 2023

English

WOTD – 12 November 2007

Etymology

Back-formation from taciturnity, from Middle English taciturnite, from Latin taciturnitas; or alternatively from French taciturne, likely reinforced by Latin taciturnus, from tacitus (“secret, tacit”).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

taciturn (comparative more taciturn, superlative most taciturn)

  1. Silent; temperamentally untalkative; disinclined to speak.
    The two sisters could hardly have been more different, one so boisterous and expressive, the other so taciturn and calm.
    Synonyms: reticent, untalkative; see also Thesaurus:taciturn
    Antonyms: garrulous, loquacious
    • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 18:
      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.
    • 1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:
      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.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin taciturnus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

taciturn (feminine taciturna, masculine plural taciturns, feminine plural taciturnes)

  1. taciturn

Further reading

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French taciturne, from Latin taciturnus.

Adjective

taciturn m or n (feminine singular taciturnă, masculine plural taciturni, feminine and neuter plural taciturne)

  1. taciturn

Declension

Declension of taciturn
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite taciturn taciturnă taciturni taciturne
definite taciturnul taciturna taciturnii taciturnele
genitive/
dative 		indefinite taciturn taciturne taciturni taciturne
definite taciturnului taciturnei taciturnilor taciturnelor
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