Word Meanings - RESERVED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: RESERVED

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, adv. -- Re*serv"ed*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RESERVED)

• Bashful
• Modest
• diffident
• shy
• retiring
• reserved
• Close \adj Narrow
• limited
• restricted
• condensed
• packed
• secret
• compressed
• solid
• firm
• compact
• niggardly
• shut
• fast
• dense
• Coy
• Shy
• bashful
• shrinking
• retreating
• modest
• Difficult
• Hard
• intricate
• Involved
• perplexing
• enigmatical
• obscure
• trying
• arduous
• troublesome
• up hill
• unmanageable
• unamenable
• opposed
• Mysterious
• Dim
• unrevealed
• unexplained
• unaccountable
• veiled
• hidden
• incomprehensible
• mystic
• inexplicable

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RESERVED)

• Reveal
• make known
• discover

Related words: (words related to RESERVED)

• RESERVE
  1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen.
• PACKHOUSE
  Warehouse for storing goods.
• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• TRYGON
  Any one of several species of large sting rays belonging to Trygon and allied genera.
• OBSCURENESS
  Obscurity. Bp. Hall.
• OPPOSABILITY
  The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.
• INEXPLICABLE
  Not explicable; not explainable; incapable of being explained, interpreted, or accounted for; as, an inexplicable mystery. "An inexplicable scratching." Cowper. Their reason is disturbed; their views become vast and perplexed, to others
• PACKMAN
  One who bears a pack; a peddler.
• LIMITARIAN
  Tending to limit.
• VEILED PLATE
  A fogged plate.
• OBSCURER
  One who, or that which, obscures.
• LIMITIVE
  Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
• INVOLVEDNESS
  The state of being involved.
• TRYSAIL
  A fore-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer. Totten.
• PACK
  To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings. See Pack, n., 5. (more info) 1. To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close order or
• LIMITABLE
  Capable of being limited.
• SECRETE
  To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not known. Carpenter. Syn. -- To conceal; hide. See
• PACKWAX
  See PAXWAX
• DENSE
  1. Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog. All sorts of bodies, firm and fluid, dense and rare. Ray.
• PACKER
  A person whose business is to pack things; especially, one who packs food for preservation; as, a pork packer.
• IATROCHEMISTRY
  Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body,
• MAISTRE; MAISTRIE; MAISTRY
  Mastery; superiority; art. See Mastery. Chaucer.
• CENTRY
  See GRAY
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• ANCESTRY
  1. Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent. Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. Addison. 2. A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who
• STRATARITHMETRY
  The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure.
• GANTRY
  See GAUNTREE
• GENTRY
  gentrise, and OF. gentelise, genterise, E. gentilesse, also OE. 1. Birth; condition; rank by birth. "Pride of gentrie." Chaucer. She conquers him by high almighty Jove, By knighthood, gentry, and sweet friendship's oath. Shak. 2. People
• CHLOROMETRY
  The process of testing the bleaching power of any combination of chlorine.
• SERPENTRY
  1. A winding like a serpent's. 2. A place inhabited or infested by serpents.
• BAYEUX TAPESTRY
  A piece of linen about 1 ft. 8 in. wide by 213 ft. long, covered with embroidery representing the incidents of William the Conqueror's expedition to England, preserved in the town museum of Bayeux in Normandy. It is probably of the 11th century,
• UNPERPLEX
  To free from perplexity. Donne.
• COUNTRY-DANCE
  See MACUALAY
• DYNAMOMETRY
  The art or process of measuring forces doing work.
• ENIGMATIC; ENIGMATICAL
  Relating to or resembling an enigma; not easily explained or accounted for; darkly expressed; obscure; puzzling; as, an enigmatical answer.
• UNLIMITED
  1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not