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incommunicative, a.|ɪnkəˈmjuːnɪkətɪv|
[in-3.]
Not communicative; not disposed for intercourse or conversation; uncommunicative.
1670Collins in Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men (1841) I. 149 We cannot expect it from one here (who is incommunicative). 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. To Rdr. 15, I shall not imitate their incommunicative Tenaciousness. 1816Byron Fragm., ‘Could I remount’, Or do they in their silent cities dwell Each in his incommunicative cell? 1851Hawthorne Grandfather's Chair iii. xi. (1879) 210, I am naturally a silent and incommunicative sort of character.
Hence incoˈmmunicatively adv.; also incoˈmmunicativeness.
1816J. Scott Vis. Paris (ed. 5) 45 The officer resisted conversation with more firmness than is usual in France..and shut himself up in almost total incommunicativeness. a1862Thoreau Cape Cod vi. (1865) 109 Silently, and for the most part incommunicatively, going about their business. 1872J. L. Sanford Estim. Eng. Kings, Chas. I, 335 The overt act of a lie seemed frequently the best method of incommunicativeness. |