- Drawn tight
- Like a circus high wire
- Rigid
- Showing nervous strain
- Stretched
- Stretched or pulled tight
- Tense
- Habitually reserved
- Habitually uncommunicative
- Not chatty
- Silent by nature, I act poorly then take a different tack
- Tight-lipped
- unsociable
- Habitually silent; not given to converse; not apt to talk
or speak.
- Holding in check
- Keen to maintain discipline after Queen’s return, I’ve been not allowing free movement
- Limiting
- Tight-fitting
- Serving or tending to restrict; limiting; as, a
restrictive particle; restrictive laws of trade.
- Astringent or styptic in effect.
- ... and Dad
- Caregiver is nightmarish, but human at heart
- Close-mouthed
- Close-mouthed (coll)
- Hesitancy after a thousand unforthcoming
- Ma
- Mother