reserved

English

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈzɝvd/
Audio (US) (file)
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈzɜːvd/
Hyphenation: re‧served

Verb

reserved

simple past and past participle of reserve

Adjective

reserved (comparative more reserved, superlative most reserved)

(comparable) Slow to reveal emotion or opinions.
He was a quiet, reserved person.
- 1942 July-August, Chas. S. Lake, “Some C.M.Es. I Have Known: II—C. J. Bowen Cooke”, in Railway Magazine, page 223:
  Before I met Mr. Bowen Cooke I had been given to understand that he was of a reserved nature, and on occasion could be a "bit of a martinet"; [...].
(not comparable) Set aside for a particular person or purpose.
I'm sorry, sir, but these are reserved seats.
- 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed‎:
  A special reserved enclosure with sandbags and a corrugated iron roof was set aside for three members of the Royal Family.

Synonyms

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Derived terms

Translations

slow to reveal emotion or opinions

Bulgarian: сдържан (bg) (sdǎržan), резервиран (bg) (rezerviran)
Catalan: reservat m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 含蓄 (zh) (hánxù), 矜持 (zh) (jīnchí), 拘謹／拘谨 (zh) (jūjǐn)
Czech: odměřený (cs), rezervovaný
Danish: reserveret
Dutch: terughoudend (nl)
Esperanto: rezerviĝema
Finnish: pidättyväinen (fi), varautunut (fi)
French: réservé (fr) m
Georgian: გულჩათხრობილი (gulčatxrobili), უთქმელი (utkmeli), გულჩახვეული (gulčaxveuli), თავდაჭერილი (tavdač̣erili), გულდახურული (guldaxuruli), თავშეკავებული (tavšeḳavebuli), ფრთხილი (prtxili)
German: reserviert (de)
Hungarian: zárkózott (hu)
Japanese: 引っ込み思案 (ja) (ひっこみじあん, hikkomi-jian)
Latin: verēcundus
Maori: nguengue, ngākau tōngā, hūnguengue
Norwegian:
Bokmål: reservert

Nynorsk: reservert
Ottoman Turkish: محجوب (mahcub)
Persian: کم‌حرف (kam-harf), تودار (fa) (tudâr)
Polish: powściągliwy (pl)
Portuguese: reservado (pt)
Russian: скры́тный (ru) (skrýtnyj), сде́ржанный (ru) (sdéržannyj), за́мкнутый (ru) (zámknutyj)
Spanish: reservado (es)
Swedish: tillbakadragen (sv), reserverad (sv)
Turkish: mesafeli (tr)

set aside for a particular person or purpose

Bulgarian: запасен (bg) (zapasen), резервен (bg) (rezerven)
Catalan: reservat m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 專用的／专用的 (zhuānyòng de)
Czech: rezervovaný
Danish: reserveret
Esperanto: rezervita
Estonian: reserveeritud
Finnish: varattu (fi)
French: réservé (fr) m
Georgian: დაჯავშნილი (daǯavšnili), რეზერვირებული (rezervirebuli), დაკავებული (daḳavebuli), გადადებული (gadadebuli), შეკვეთილი (šeḳvetili)
German: reserviert (de)
Greek: ρεζερβέ (el) (rezervé)
Hungarian: foglalt (hu), lefoglalt (hu)
Norwegian: reservert
Persian: رزروشده (rezerv-šode)
Polish: zarezerwowany m
Portuguese: reservado (pt)
Russian: зарезерви́рованный (ru) (zarezervírovannyj)
Spanish: reservado (es)
Swedish: reserverad (sv)

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Norman: ^{(please verify)} rêsèrvé (Jersey)

Anagrams

deserver, reversed

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