reserved

adj. kept back, retained; set aside for a specific purpose; reticent, formal in manner or behavior; characterized by formal behavior or manners; ordered in advance, booked

v. save for later, keep back for future use, retain; set aside for a specific purpose; order in advance (hotel room, airline ticket, etc.)

Adjective
1. set aside for the use of a particular person or party
(antonym) unreserved
(similar) booked, engaged, set-aside(p)
2. marked by self-restraint and reticence; "was habitually reserved in speech, withholding her opinion"-Victoria Sackville-West
(antonym) unreserved
(similar) aloof, distant, upstage
(see-also) backward
3. cool and formal in manner
(synonym) restrained, reticent, unemotional
(similar) undemonstrative

Noun
1. formality and propriety of manner
(synonym) modesty
(hypernym) propriety, properness, correctitude
(hyponym) demureness
2. something kept back or saved for future use or a special purpose
(synonym) backlog, stockpile
(hypernym) accumulation
(hyponym) bank
(derivation) allow, appropriate, earmark, set aside
3. an athlete who plays only when another member of the team drops out
(synonym) substitute
(hypernym) athlete, jock
(hyponym) bench warmer
(member-holonym) bench
4. (medicine) potential capacity to respond in order to maintain vital functions
(hypernym) indefinite quantity
(hyponym) pulmonary reserve
(classification) medicine, medical specialty
5. a district that is reserved for particular purpose
(synonym) reservation
(hypernym) administrative district, administrative division, territorial division
(hyponym) indian reservation
6. armed forces that are not on active duty but can be called in an emergency
(synonym) military reserve
(hypernym) military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine
(member-meronym) reservist
(classification) military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine
7. the trait of being uncommunicative; not volunteering anything more than necessary
(synonym) reticence, taciturnity
(hypernym) uncommunicativeness
Verb
1. hold back or set aside, especially for future use or contingency; "they held back their applause in anticipation"
(hypernym) withhold, keep back
(hyponym) devote
(derivation) backlog, stockpile
2. give or assign a share of money or time to a particular person or cause; "I will earmark this money for your research"
(synonym) allow, appropriate, earmark, set aside
(hypernym) assign, allot, portion
(derivation) backlog, stockpile
3. obtain or arrange (for oneself) in advance; "We managed to reserve a table at Maxim's"
(hypernym) request, bespeak, call for, quest
(hyponym) book up
(verb-group) hold, book
(derivation) reservation
4. arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance; "reserve me a seat on a flight"; "The agent booked tickets to the show for the whole family"; "please hold a table at Maxim's"
(synonym) hold, book
(hypernym) request, bespeak, call for, quest
(hyponym) keep open, hold open, keep, save
(entail) procure, secure
(derivation) reservation
Adjective
1. not engaged in military action
(synonym) inactive, reserve(a)
(similar) nonoperational
2. kept in reserve especially for emergency use; "a reserve supply of food"; "a spare tire"; "spare parts"
(synonym) reserve(a), spare
(similar) unnecessary, unneeded

(imp. & p. p.)
of Reserve
  

(a.)
Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward, or cautious, in communicating one's thoughts and feelings; not free or frank.
  

(a.)
Kept for future or special use, or for an exigency; as, reserved troops; a reserved seat in a theater.
  

    reversed    deserver

Synonyms and related words:
Olympian, Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, aloof, antisocial, aposiopestic, backward, bashful, blank, brief, brusque, ceremonious, chilled, chilly, clipped, close, close-lipped, close-tongued, closemouthed, cold, compact, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, conserved, constrained, contracted, controlled, conventional, cool, crisp, curt, cut, demure, detached, diffident, dignified, discreet, distant, docked, elliptic, epigrammatic, expressionless, forbidding, formal, frigid, frosty, gnomic, guarded, held, held back, held in reserve, ice-cold, icy, impassive, impersonal, inaccessible, incommunicable, introverted, kept, laconic, modest, modified, noncommittal, offish, pithy, pointed, poker-faced, preserved, prim, pruned, put by, quiet, remote, removed, repressed, restrained, retained, reticent, retiring, rigid, saved, sedate, sententious, short, short and sweet, shortened, shrinking, shy, silent, spare, standoff, standoffish, strait-laced, subdued, succinct, summary, suppressed, synopsized, taciturn, terse, tight, tight-lipped, tights, to the point, truncated, unaffable, unapproachable, uncommunicative, uncongenial, undemonstrative, unemotional, unexpansive, ungenial, unresponsive, unsocial, withdrawn, withheld