RESERVED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reserved mean? 

• RESERVED (adjective)
  The adjective RESERVED has 2 senses:

1. set aside for the use of a particular person or party

2. marked by self-restraint and reticence

  Familiarity information: RESERVED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESERVED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Set aside for the use of a particular person or party

Similar:

booked; engaged; set-aside (reserved in advance)

bookable (subject to being reserved or booked)

Antonym:

unreserved (not reserved)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Marked by self-restraint and reticence

Context example:

was habitually reserved in speech, withholding her opinion

Similar:

aloof; distant; upstage (remote in manner)

diffident (showing modest reserve)

indrawn; withdrawn (tending to reserve or introspection)

Also:

backward ((used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature)

undemonstrative (not given to open expression of emotion)

inhibited (held back or restrained or prevented)

restrained (under restraint)

Antonym:

unreserved (not cautious or reticent)

 Context examples 

"But you would still be reserved," said Marianne, "and that is worse."

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Rooms have been reserved for you at the Brambletye Hotel, so we can all walk down to the village together.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The method is considered more dangerous than intravenous administration and should be reserved to experts.

(Intraarterial Route of Administration, NCI Thesaurus)

This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“Among friends, sir!” repeated Mr. Micawber; and all he had reserved came breaking out of him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Poor Justine was very ill; but other trials were reserved for her.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Elizabeth reserved to herself the application for her mother's.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I have reserved beds at the George for both of us.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mercy was a thing reserved for gentler climes.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

She is reserved, more reserved, I think, than she used to be—And I love an open temper.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)