Reserved Definition & Meaning

in an aloof manner; "the local gentry and professional classes had held aloof for the school had accepted their sons

reserved in advance

showing modest reserve; "she was diffident when offering a comment on the professor's lecture" lacking self-confidence

separated in space or coming from or going to a distance; "distant villages"; "the sound of distant traffic

having ones attention or mind or energy engaged; "she keeps herself fully occupied with volunteer activities

tending to reserve or introspection; "a quiet indrawn man"

having low density; "rare gasses"; "lightheaded from the rarefied mountain air" of high moral or intellectual value

cool and formal in manner under restraint marked by avoidance of extravagance or extremes; "moderate in his demands

temperamentally disinclined to talk cool and formal in manner reluctant to draw attention to yourself

not given to open expression of emotion