reticent

About 0.76 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Unwilling to communicate; keeping one's thoughts and opinions to oneself; reserved or restrained.

   She's rather reticent on the subject of her finances.

2. adjective Hesitant or not wanting to take some action; reluctant (usually followed by a verb in the infinitive).

   He is reticent to travel so much.

Similar words

reserved taciturn untalkative self-effacing undemonstrative unemotional unassertive restrained reticence modest

Often followed by

about to and in on as man than with

Word family

reticently