incommunicado
[in-kuh-myoo-ni-kah-doh]
- (especially of a prisoner) deprived of any communication with others.
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Origin of incommunicado
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Contemporary Examples
The head of al Qaeda was hiding but he was not incommunicado.
If you want to be incommunicado for days on end, become an insurance agent, not a governor.
He left town without telling even his wife where he was going and was incommunicado for several days.
Historical Examples
I really was incommunicado so far as the outside world was concerned.
The RoadJack London
If we could have, we'd have even Introverted the Maintainer, broken all the ties that bind us, chanced it incommunicado.
The Big TimeFritz Reuter Leiber
The officers and privates were supposed to be strictly "incommunicado," but even these found means of communication.
History of Kershaw's BrigadeD. Augustus Dickert
incommunicado
- (postpositive) deprived of communication with other people, as while in solitary confinement
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Word Origin
C19: from Spanish incomunicado, from incomunicar to deprive of communication; see in- 1, communicate
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Word Origin and History for incommunicado
adj./adv.
1844, American English, from Spanish incomunicado, past participle of incomunicar "deprive of communication," from in- "not" + comunicar "communicate," from Latin communicare "to share, impart" (see communication).
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