Taciturn

Source:
Interviewer: Doesn't Maine also have a reputation for having eccentric and kind of cantankerous people?

Elizabeth Strout: Well if it doesn't it probably should... Mostly I think of them as being taciturn. There's a great sense of not speaking when one doesn't need to. Which why I think I had to leave.

TACITURN:
(tās'ĭ-tûrn')
-adjective

1.

inclined to silence; reserved in speech; reluctant to join in conversation.

2.

dour, stern, and silent in expression and manner.

3.
"habitually silent," 1771, back formation from taciturnity.



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