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unloquacious en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + loquacious.

Meanings

1. Not loquacious, having little to say.
   • The Arab odd-job boy finished his watering and silently returned to the house. Like that young Hardcastle, Freddy thought. Like Hardcastle, the gardener’s boy of Freddy’s youth, who had moved back and forth, remotely attending to things, unloquacious, unsmiling, totally unwilling to conspire in Freddy’s games. 1965, Muriel Spark, The Mandelbaum Gate, London: Macmillan, Part One, Chapter 3:
   • Between two such unloquacious persons, dialogue was naturally slow at first, but they had a long drive before them. 1890, George Gissing, The Emancipated, London: Richard, Bentley & Son, Volume I, Part I, Chapter 5, pp. 180-181:

Forms

Deriveds

unloquaciousness

Synonyms

untalkative