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INCOMMUNICATIVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does incommunicative mean?
• INCOMMUNICATIVE (adjective)
The adjective INCOMMUNICATIVE has 1 sense:
1. not inclined to talk or give information or express opinions
Familiarity information: INCOMMUNICATIVE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not inclined to talk or give information or express opinions
Synonyms:
incommunicative; uncommunicative
Similar:
close; closelipped; closemouthed; secretive; tightlipped (inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information)
deadpan; expressionless; impassive; poker-faced; unexpressive (deliberately impassive in manner)
incommunicado (without the means or right to communicate)
inexpressive (not expressive)
mum; silent (failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to)
unpronounceable; unutterable (very difficult to pronounce correctly)
Also:
inarticulate; unarticulate (without or deprived of the use of speech or words)
taciturn (habitually reserved and uncommunicative)
Context examples
Incommunicative as he was, some time elapsed before I had an opportunity of gauging his mind.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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