 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
reserved
adjective
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}]
3: cool and formal in manner [syn: {restrained}, {reticent}, {unemotional}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Reserve \Re*serve"\ (r?-z?rv"), verb (used with an object) [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.
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.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
Hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, which I
have reserved against the time of trouble? --Job
xxxviii.
22,23.
Reserve your kind looks and language for private
hours. --Swift.
3. To make an exception of; to except. [R.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Reserved \Re*served"\ (-z?rvd"), adjective
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 all obliging, yet reserved to all. --Walsh.
Nothing reserved or sullen was to see. --Dryden.
-- {Re*serv"ed*ly} (r?-z?rv"?d-l?), adverb --
{Re*serv"ed*ness}, noun
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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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