tightlipped

1. 1.

   inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information

   “although they knew her whereabouts her friends kept close about it”

   Synonymsclosecloselippedclosemouthedsecretive

   Similaruncommunicative

Other forms of tightlipped

comparative

tightlippedder·

superlative

tightlippeddest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tightlipped

What does tightlipped mean?

tightlipped means "inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information".

How many syllables are in tightlipped?

tightlipped has 2 syllables: tight-lipped. The stress falls on "tight".

What is another word for tightlipped?

Close synonyms include close, closelipped, closemouthed, secretive. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tightlipped a common word?

tightlipped is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.