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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/reticent https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/reticent (2) https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/can-reticent-mean-reluctant https:/

• echelon 1y ago
  I only knew of the "reluctant" meaning. Languages mutate quickly.
  • mijoharas 1y ago
    Yep, it's what I've heard most often too (I only just learnt the other meaning from the kind person prompting me look up the definition). I also don't think of it as that much of an unusual word, but hey.
• trelane 1y ago
  It's also Merriam-Webster, a descriptivist dictionary. Others are of a prescriptionist bent. For example, Cambridge: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/reticent https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/retic... More on prescriptive vs descriptive: https://twominenglish.com/prescriptivist-vs-descriptivist/ https://twominenglish.com/prescriptivist-vs-descriptivist/ I personally am more descriptivist when it comes to English. It is also a lot of fun to bring some M-W citations in order to "Well, actually" someone who is "Well, actually"-ing.