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undemonstrative definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: not given to open expression of emotion [ant: demonstrative]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1836 restrained in expression of feeling ; reserved • undemonstratively adverb • undemonstrativeness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. not expressing feelings etc. outwardly; reserved. Derivatives: undemonstratively adv. undemonstrativeness n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Someone who is undemonstrative does not often show affection. Lady Ainslie is an undemonstrative woman who rarely touches even her own son. = reserved ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Reserved, quiet, modest, staid, sober, demure, sedate, placid, calm, composed.

Moby Thesaurus

Olympian, actual, aloof, aseptic, backward, bashful, blank, chill, chilled, chilly, cold, constrained, cool, detached, discreet, distant, emotionless, expressionless, forbidding, frigid, frosty, glacial, guarded, icy, impassive, impersonal, inaccessible, incontestable, incontrovertible, indifferent, indisputable, indubitable, introverted, modest, offish, real, remote, removed, repressed, reserved, restrained, reticent, retiring, shrinking, standoff, standoffish, subdued, suppressed, true, unaffable, unapproachable, uncongenial, uncontestable, undeniable, unemotional, unequivocal, unexpansive, ungenial, uninterested, unquestionable, veridical, withdrawn