taiseux
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
taiseux (feminine taiseuse, masculine plural taiseux, feminine plural taiseuses)
- quiet, short of words
- Synonym: taciturne
- Antonym: bavard
- Hypernym: silencieux
- 2018, Zaz, Je parle:
- Bien sûr qu’on se perd parfois ; mais le timide, le taiseux, le cynique, le bileux, l’indécis […] se perdent aussi.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
See also[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “taiseux”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.