'Reserved' definitions:
Definition of 'reserved'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Set aside for the use of a particular person or party [ant: unreserved]
adjective
Marked by self-restraint and reticence; "was habitually reserved in speech, withholding her opinion"-Victoria Sackville-West [ant: unreserved]
Definition of 'Reserved'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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; to make a reservation[7]. --Gen. xxvii. 35.
- Note: In cases where one person or party makes a request to an agent that some accommodation (such as a hotel room or place at a restaurant) be kept (reserved) for their use at a particular time, the word reserve applies both to the action of the person making the request, and to the action of the agent who takes the approproriate action (such as a notation in a book of reservations) to be certain that the accommodation is available at that time. [1913 Webster +PJC]
- Hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, which I have reserved against the time of trouble? --Job xxxviii. 22,23. [1913 Webster]
- Reserve your kind looks and language for private hours. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To make an exception of; to except. [R.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Reserved'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward, or cautious, in communicating one's thoughts and feelings; not free or frank. [1913 Webster]
- To all obliging, yet reserved to all. --Walsh. [1913 Webster]
- Nothing reserved or sullen was to see. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] -- {Re*serv"ed*ly} (r?-z?rv"?d-l?), adv. -- {Re*serv"ed*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'reserved'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Olympian,
- 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,
- Spartan,
- 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
Words containing 'Reserved'
- In reserve,
- Reservance,
- Reservation,
- Reservative,
- Reserve,
- Reservedly,
- Reserver,
- Reserving,
- reserves,
- Indian reservation,
- Mental reservation,
- Reserve Township,
- Reserve air,
- Reserve city,
- Reserve, KS,
- Reserve, LA,
- Reserve, MT,
- Reserve, NM,
- Reserve, WI,
- federal reserve,
- hidden reserve,
- home reserve,
- initial reserve,
- insurance reserve,
- investment reserve,
- military reserve,
- pulmonary reserve,
- real reserve,
- reserve account,
- reserve assets,
- reserve bank,
- reserve clause,
- reserve fund,
- terminal reserve,
- territorial reserve,
- valuation reserve,
- Rancho Tehama Reserve,
- Reserve Township, PA,
- central reserve cities,
- cookie jar reserve,
- federal reserve bank,
- federal reserve board,
- federal reserve note,
- federal reserve system,
- Rancho Tehama Reserve, CA,
- reserve officers training corps