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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

RESERV'ED, pp.
1. Kept for another or future use; retained.
2. a. Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward in conversation; not free or frank.
To all obliging, yet reserv'd to all.
Nothing reserv'd or sullen was to see.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: set aside for the use of a particular person or party [ant: unreserved]
2: marked by self-restraint and reticence; "was habitually reserved in speech, withholding her opinion"-Victoria Sackville-West [ant: unreserved]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1601 1. restrained in words and actions 2. kept or set apart or aside for future or special use Synonyms: see silent • reservedly adverb • reservedness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 reticent; slow to reveal emotion or opinions; uncommunicative. 2 a set apart, destined for some use or fate. b (often foll. by for, to) left by fate for; falling first or only to. Phrases and idioms: reserved occupation an occupation from which a person will not be taken for military service. Derivatives: reservedly adv. reservedness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Reserve Re*serve" (r?-z?rv"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reserved. (z?rvd");p. pr. & vb. n. Reserving.] [F. r['e]server, L. reservare, reservatum; pref. re- re- + servare to keep. See Serve.] 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. xxvii. 35. Hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, which I have reserved against the time of trouble? --Job xxxviii. 22,23. Reserve your kind looks and language for private hours. --Swift. 3. To make an exception of; to except. [R.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Reserved Re*served" (-z?rvd"), a. 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?-z?rv"?d-l?), adv. -- Re*serv"ed*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Someone who is reserved keeps their feelings hidden. He was unemotional, quite quiet, and reserved... ADJ 2. A table in a restaurant or a seat in a theatre that is reserved is being kept for someone rather than given or sold to anyone else. Seats, or sometimes entire tables, were reserved. ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Retained, kept, withheld, excepted. 2. Restrained, backward, cautious, cold, incommunicative, unsociable, unsocial, distant. 3. Shy, coy, taciturn, modest, demure.

Moby Thesaurus

Olympian, Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, aloof, antisocial, aposiopestic, backward, bashful, blank, brief, brusque, ceremonious, chilled, chilly, clipped, close, close-lipped, close-tongued, closemouthed, cold, compact, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, conserved, constrained, contracted, controlled, conventional, cool, crisp, curt, cut, demure, detached, diffident, dignified, discreet, distant, docked, elliptic, epigrammatic, expressionless, forbidding, formal, frigid, frosty, gnomic, guarded, held, held back, held in reserve, ice-cold, icy, impassive, impersonal, inaccessible, incommunicable, introverted, kept, laconic, modest, modified, noncommittal, offish, pithy, pointed, poker-faced, preserved, prim, pruned, put by, quiet, remote, removed, repressed, restrained, retained, reticent, retiring, rigid, saved, sedate, sententious, short, short and sweet, shortened, shrinking, shy, silent, spare, standoff, standoffish, strait-laced, subdued, succinct, summary, suppressed, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight, tight-lipped, tights, to the point, truncated, unaffable, unapproachable, uncommunicative, uncongenial, undemonstrative, unemotional, unexpansive, ungenial, unresponsive, unsocial, withdrawn, withheld