Meaning of man of few words | Babel Free
Definitions
A man who doesn't speak much; a habitually terse or taciturn man.
idiomatic
Equivalents
Deutsch
Schweiger
Français
homme de peu de mots
Italiano
uomo di poche parole
Nederlands
geen man van veel woorden
Português
homem de poucas palavras
Examples
“Tarzan but nodded his head. He was a man of few words, and possibly it was for this reason as much as any that Kadour ben Saden had taken to him, for if there be one thing that an Arab despises it is a talkative man.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.