Dictionary entry

Reserved

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Re‐served″ (–z?rvd″), a. 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�), adv. — Re‐serv″ed‐ness, n.