Word Meanings - INCONVERSABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Incommunicative; unsocial; reserved.

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• RESERVE
  1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 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. Gen.
• RESERVOR
  One who reserves; a reserver.
• INCOMMUNICATIVE
  Not communicative; not free or apt to impart to others in conversation; reserved; silent; as, the messenger was incommunicative; hence, not disposed to hold fellowship or intercourse with others; exclusive. The Chinese . . . an incommunicative
• RESERVATIVE
  Tending to reserve or keep; keeping; reserving.
• RESERVATION
  1. The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve. A. Smith. With reservation of an hundred knights. Shak. Make some reservation of your wrongs. Shak. 2. Something withheld, either not expressed
• RESERVOIR
  A small intercellular space, often containing Receiving reservoir , a principal reservoir into which an aqueduct or rising main delivers water, and from which a distributing reservoir draws its supply. (more info) 1. A place where anything is
• RESERVATORY
  A place in which things are reserved or kept. Woodward.
• RESERVEE
  One to, or for, whom anything is reserved; -- contrasted with reservor.
• RESERVIST
  A member of a reserve force of soldiers or militia.
• RESERVANCE
  Reservation.
• RESERVER
  One who reserves.
• RESERVE CITY
  In the national banking system of the United States, any of certain cities in which the national banks are required (U. S. Rev. Stat. sec. 5191) to keep a larger reserve than the minimum required of all other banks. The banks in certain of the
• RESERVED
  1. Kept for future or special use, or for an exigency; as, reserved troops; a reserved seat in a theater. 2. Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward, or cautious, in communicating one's thoughts and feelings; not free or frank. To
• PRESERVATIVE
  Having the power or quality of preserving; tending to preserve, or to keep from injury, decay, etc.
• UNRESERVED
  Not reserved; not kept back; not withheld in part; unrestrained. -- Un`re*serv"ed*ly, adv. -- Un`re*serv"ed*ness, n.
• PRESERVABLE
  Capable of being preserved; admitting of preservation.
• PRESERVER
  1. One who, or that which, preserves, saves, or defends, from destruction, injury, or decay; esp., one who saves the life or character of another. Shak. 2. One who makes preserves of fruit. Game preserver. See under Game.
• PRESERVATION
  The act or process of preserving, or keeping safe; the state of being preserved, or kept from injury, destruction, or decay; security; safety; as, preservation of life, fruit, game, etc.; a picture in good preservation. Give us particulars of thy
• SELF-PRESERVATION
  The preservation of one's self from destruction or injury.
• LIFE-PRESERVER
  An apparatus, made in very various forms, and of various materials, for saving one from drowning by buoying up the body while in the water. -- Life"-pre*serv`ing, a.
• PRESERVATORY
  Preservative. Bp. Hall.
• PRESERVE
  1. To keep or save from injury or destruction; to guard or defend from evil, harm, danger, etc.; to protect. O Lord, thou preserved man and beast. Ps. xxxvi. 6. Now, good angels preserve the king. Shak. 2. To save from decay by the use of some