Reticent vs Careful - What's the difference?
reticent | careful |
Keeping one's thoughts and opinions to oneself; reserved or restrained.
* 1856 , :
* 1870 , , ch XXIII:
* 1891 , , ch LIV:
* 1915 , , ch 3:
* 1922 , :
* 1922 , , ch XXV:
(obsolete) Full of care or grief; sorrowful, sad.
*, Bk.V:
*:‘Alas,’ sayde Sir Cadore, ‘now carefull is myne herte that now lyeth dede my cosyn that I beste loved.’
(obsolete) Full of cares or anxiety; worried, troubled.
*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:
*:Where through long watch, and late daies weary toile, / She soundly slept, and carefull thoughts did quite assoile.
Having care (for); attentive to potential danger, error or harm; cautious.
:He was a slow and careful driver.
Conscientious and painstaking; meticulous.
:They made a careful search of the crime scene.
As adjectives the difference between reticent and careful
is that reticent is keeping one's thoughts and opinions to oneself; reserved or restrained while careful is full of care or grief; sorrowful, sad.reticent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- They are slow and reticent , and are like a dull good horse which lets every nag pass him, but with whip and spur will run down every racer in the field.
- But he was a reticent as well as an eccentric man; and he made no mention of a certain evening when he warmed his hands at the gatehouse fire, and looked steadily down upon a certain heap of torn and miry clothes upon the floor.
- She had told him she was not now at Marlott, but had been curiously reticent as to her actual address, and the only course was to go to Marlott and inquire for it.
- The milkman had been released, I read, and the true criminal, about whose identity the police were reticent , was believed to have got away from London by one of the northern lines.
- The inhabitants of that street impressed me peculiarly; At first I thought it was because they were all silent and reticent ; but later decided it was because they were all very old.
- But they were not reticent enough to prevent the circulation of certain uneasy rumours and extravagant stories of discreditable adventures.