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not talkative
adjective as in inaudible
Strongest matches
Strong match
adjective as in mum
adjective as in silent
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- bashful
- buttoned-up
- checked
- clammed up
- close
- closed-up
- closemouthed
- curbed
- dumb
- dummied up
- faint
- hush
- iced
- inarticulate
- incoherent
- inconversable
- indistinct
- inhibited
- laconic
- mousy
- muted
- noiseless
- nonvocal
- reserved
- shy
- silentious
- soundless
- still
- struck dumb
- taciturn
- tongue-tied
- unclear
- uncommunicative
- unheard
- unsociable
- unspeaking
- voiceless
- wordless
- zipped
adjective as in tight-lipped
Example Sentences
I'm not talkative, except in interviews, about what I am doing.
“Some days I’m not talkative. Some days I’m extra talkative. Some days I’m a comedian. Some days I’m super serious. But I just try to figure out how I can be the best at whatever today approaches in how I want to be able to achieve it.”
Dad was never very emotional and definitely not talkative.
“He was not talkative,” Nealis said.
He’s very talkative — almost to the point where I felt not talkative.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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