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View synonyms for incommunicative
incommunicative
[ in-kuh-myoo-ni-kuh-tiv, -key- ]
incommunicative
/ ˌɪnkəˈmjuːnɪkətɪv /
adjective
- tending not to communicate with others; taciturn
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Derived Forms
- ˌincomˈmunicatively, adverb
- ˌincomˈmunicativeness, noun
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Other Words From
- incom·muni·ca·tive·ly adverb
- incom·muni·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.
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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.
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The clerk found him to the last degree incommunicative; and nothing could be discovered from him but what the papers disclosed.
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Indeed, I did not discover that Melindy could talk that day; she was very silent, very incommunicative.
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How miserable, how deservedly miserable is an incommunicative selfishness!
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