Reserved

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.

Adj.	1.	reserved - set aside for the use of a particular person or party Antonyms: unreserved - not reserved
	2.	reserved - marked by self-restraint and reticence; "was habitually reserved in speech, withholding her opinion"-Victoria Sackville-West Antonyms: unreserved - not cautious or reticent; "unreserved behavior"
	3.	reserved - cool and formal in manner Synonyms: restrained, reticent, unemotional

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