incommunicatingadj.
Not communicating, without communication.
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unentertained1628
unsociable1638
incommunicable1646
incommunicatinga1676
societyless1788
a1676 M. Hale Hist. Common Law (1713) xii. 256 That Confusion and Disparity that would unavoidably ensue, if the Administration was by several incommunicating Hands.
a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1684) 130 Even in their Northern Nations and incommunicating Angles, their Languages are widely differing.
1876 J. Martineau Ess., Rev., & Addr. (1891) IV. 225 Incommunicating distances.
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