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tight-lipped
adjective as in silent
adjective as in mum
adjective as in quiet
adjective as in reticent
adjective as in secretive
adjective as in severe
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- ascetic
- astringent
- austere
- biting
- caustic
- close
- cold
- cruel
- cutting
- despotic
- disapproving
- dour
- earnest
- firm
- flinty
- forbidding
- grave
- grim
- hard
- hard-nosed
- inconsiderate
- inexorable
- inflexible
- iron-handed
- obdurate
- oppressive
- peremptory
- pitiless
- resolute
- resolved
- rigid
- rigorous
- satirical
- scathing
- sober
- stern
- stiff
- strait-laced
- tyrannical
- unalterable
- unbending
- unchanging
- unfeeling
- unrelenting
- unsmiling
- unsparing
adjective as in speechless
adjective as in taciturn
adjective as in tight-lipped
adjective as in uncommunicative
adjective as in incommunicable
adjective as in incommunicative
adjective as in inobtrusive
Weak matches
- buttoned-up
- clammed up
- close
- close-mouthed
- could hear a pin drop
- dumb
- hushed
- hushful
- inaudible
- low
- low-pitched
- muffled
- mute
- muted
- noiseless
- not saying boo
- peaceful
- quiescent
- quieted
- reserved
- restrained
- reticent
- secretive
- silent
- soft
- soundless
- speechless
- still
- stilled
- subdued
- taciturn
- tasteful
- uncommunicative
- unexpressed
- unobtrusive
- unspeaking
- unuttered
- whist
adjective as in closemouthed
adjective as in tightlipped
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Example Sentences
Major League Baseball, though, is still being tight-lipped about what the end of the embargo might mean for the sport.
Missy also gets a bit tight-lipped when it comes to her personal life.
The actress is tight-lipped about the final season of ‘Mad Men.’
Everybody involved in assisting the Malaysians has been very tight-lipped about what is going on.
Still, not everyone was as tight lipped about poverty on the lower rungs of ladder as Obama was.
Most of these were workmen of some kind or other, called in to help the lab crew as needed, but all of them were tight-lipped.
A slightly sardonic grimace wrinkled his tight-lipped mouth.
Then, very tight-lipped, he issued out beneath the awning, where among the Malays a whispering buzz of talk was forward.
He gave not only Jack's lilt and phraseology, but his facial changes and rather prim, tight-lipped smile.
Tight-lipped, using her flashlight, she ran through the kitchen.
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On this page you'll find 478 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tight lipped, such as: bashful, mute, quiet, shy, still, and buttoned-up.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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