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View synonyms for incommunicative

incommunicative

[ in-kuh-myoo-ni-kuh-tiv, -key- ]

adjective

  1. not communicative; reserved; uncommunicative.


incommunicative

/ ˌɪnkəˈmjuːnɪkətɪv /

adjective

  1. tending not to communicate with others; taciturn
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˌincomˈmunicatively, adverb
  • ˌincomˈmunicativeness, noun
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Other Words From

  • incom·muni·ca·tive·ly adverb
  • incom·muni·ca·tive·ness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of incommunicative1

First recorded in 1660–70; in- 3 + communicative
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Example Sentences

I certainly did not impose any unfair burden upon her incommunicative disposition.

When you met him on the stairs he was incommunicative and gloomy; and whatever you asked him to do he was too busy to do it.

The clerk found him to the last degree incommunicative; and nothing could be discovered from him but what the papers disclosed.

Indeed, I did not discover that Melindy could talk that day; she was very silent, very incommunicative.

How miserable, how deservedly miserable is an incommunicative selfishness!

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