incommunicative
not communicative; reserved; uncommunicative.
Origin of incommunicative
1Other words from incommunicative
- in·com·mu·ni·ca·tive·ly, adverb
- in·com·mu·ni·ca·tive·ness, noun
Words Nearby incommunicative
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How to use incommunicative in a sentence
I certainly did not impose any unfair burden upon her incommunicative disposition.
Sir Jasper Carew | Charles James LeverWhen 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 Divine Fire | May SinclairThe clerk found him to the last degree incommunicative; and nothing could be discovered from him but what the papers disclosed.
Passages From the English Notebooks, Volume 1 | Nathaniel HawthorneIndeed, 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!
Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. I | Francis Augustus Cox
British Dictionary definitions for incommunicative
/ (ˌɪnkəˈmjuːnɪkətɪv) /
tending not to communicate with others; taciturn
Derived forms of incommunicative
- incommunicatively, adverb
- incommunicativeness, noun
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