Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not disposed to be forthcoming or communicative; uncommunicative.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not disposed to impart to others, as information or ideas; reserved; uncommunicative.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not communicative; not free or apt to impart to others in conversation; reserved; silent; ; hence, not disposed to hold fellowship or intercourse with others; exclusive.
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- adjective
Uncommunicative .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not inclined to talk or give information or express opinions
Etymologies
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Examples
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Do we credit her early opinion that he was closed and incommunicative?
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I am so disgusted by the slow-moving, unresponsive, incommunicative and, well, intellectually-asleep staff I observed that I am already dreading the return flight.
baggyk: Home, later than expected baggyk 2009
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The Cohen family adopted a young survivor who had become incommunicative, and this adopted brother eventually told his story to a receptive yet vulnerable listener, his fourteen-year old adoptive sister, Liliane.
Liliane Atlan. 2009
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I am so disgusted by the slow-moving, unresponsive, incommunicative and, well, intellectually-asleep staff I observed that I am already dreading the return flight.
Home, later than expected baggyk 2009
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"" Message in a Bottle '' has its dumb points: too many shots of churning surf and lovers nestled in beach blankets, not to mention the premise that women find incommunicative, hulking shells like Blake the height of irresistibility.
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Brentrup's attorney says that with Kit absent and incommunicative, "somebody has to have the deciding voice."'
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His stepfather's brand of Islam accommodated elements of animism and Hinduism, but Obama understood in retrospect that the overthrow of Sukarno in 1965, and the massacre of Communists and ethnic Chinese, had changed his stepfather from the idealist his mother had met at the University of Hawaii to an incommunicative man intent on surviving in the new regime.
Dreams from Obama Pinckney, Darryl 2008
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Even when she was being stubborn and horrible and incommunicative, these women still loved her.
Hot For Him Mayberry, Sarah 2007
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He confesses that "a single hit of pot is enough to reduce me to a whimpering fetal crouch for several incommunicative hours at a time."
Archive 2006-02-01 2006
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Mr. do Campo said that Mr. Padilla was not incommunicative, and that he expressed curiosity about what was going on in the world, liked to talk about sports and demonstrated particularly keen interest in the Chicago Bears.
Hullabaloo 2006
milosrdenstvi commented on the word incommunicative
Is it better to say uncommunicative?
December 31, 2010
bilby commented on the word incommunicative
I'm not talking to you.
December 31, 2010