closemouthed adj : inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information; "although they knew her whereabouts her friends kept close about it" [syn: close, closelipped, secretive, tightlipped]

English

Adjective

1. reticent, secretive or uncommunicative

Quotations

• 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.

Translations

brief, brusque, close, close-lipped, close-tongued, concise, curt, dark, discreet, dumb, economical of words, evasive, indisposed to talk, laconic, mum, mute, quiet, reserved, reticent, secret, secretive, shifty, short, silent, snug, sparing of words, speechless, taciturn, terse, tight-lipped, tongue-tied, uncommunicative, unloquacious, untalkative, word-bound, wordless