reserved

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
reserved
    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}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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   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.
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               Hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, which I
               have reserved against the time of trouble? --Job
                                                  xxxviii.
                                                  22,23.
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               Reserve your kind looks and language for private
               hours.                             --Swift.
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   3. To make an exception of; to except. [R.]
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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   2. Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward, or
      cautious, in communicating one's thoughts and feelings;
      not free or frank.
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            To all obliging, yet reserved to all. --Walsh.
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            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.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
120 Moby Thesaurus words for "reserved":
      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

    

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