incommunicativeadj.
/ɪnkəˈmjuːnɪkətɪv/ Not communicative; not disposed for intercourse or conversation; uncommunicative.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > [adjective]
unspeakinga1382
speechless1390
mutec1400
dumb1406
silenta1425
peaceablec1425
secretc1440
of few wordsa1500
tongue-tied1529
mum1532
closec1540
strait-laced1546
tongue-dumb1556
incommunicable1568
sparing1568
inconversable1577
retentive1599
wordless1604
mumbudget1622
uncommunicable1628
monastica1631
word-bound1644
on (also upon) the reserve1655
strait-mouthed1664
oyster-like1665
incommunicative1670
mumchance1681
speechless1726
taciturnous1727
tongue-tacked1727
monosyllabic1735
silentish1737
untalkative1739
silentious1749
buttoned-up1767
taciturn1771
close as wax1772
untittletattling1779
reticent1825
voiceless1827
say-nothing1838
unremonstrant1841
still1855
unvocal1858
inexpansive186.
short-tongued1864
non-communicating1865
tight-lipped1876
unworded1886
chup1896
tongue-bound1906
shut-mouthed1936
zip-lipped1943
shtum1958
society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > [adjective] > not fit or inclined for society
moy1487
uncompanable1555
inconversable1577
unconversable1593
insociable1598
unsociable1600
dissociable1603
unconversing1643
insocial1654
incommunicative1670
segregative1685
uncommunicative1691
unsocial1731
unamicable1732
uncompanionable1748
dissocial1762
unclubbable?1764
ungregarious1829
lame1942
socially distanced1970
1670 J. Collins Let. in S. P. Rigaud & S. J. Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men 17th Cent. (1841) (modernized text) I. 149 We cannot expect it from one here (who is incommunicative).
1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. To Rdr. 15 I shall not imitate their incommunicative Tenaciousness.
a1824 Ld. Byron Could I Remount in Lett. & Jrnl. (1830) II. 37 Or do they in their silent cities dwell Each in his incommunicative cell?
1841 N. Hawthorne Liberty Tree xi. 152 I am naturally a silent and incommunicative sort of character.
Derivatives
incoˈmmunicatively adv.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > [adverb]
in silencea1382
without language?c1450
sub silentio1563
monkishly1595
wordlessly1840
pauciloquently1844
speechlessly1847
taciturnly1847
reticently1859
incommunicativelya1862
a1862 H. D. Thoreau Cape Cod (1865) vi. 109 Silently, and for the most part incommunicatively, going about their business.
incoˈmmunicativeness n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > [noun]
stillnessc1050
silencea1225
seld-speech?c1225
taciturnityc1450
retreata1533
mum1555
silentness1573
reticence1603
reticencya1617
reservation1619
parciloquy1656
reserve1659
costiveness1792
incommunicativeness1815
mutism1824
incommunicableness1835
ineloquence1843
incommunicability1855
unspeaking1860
mumchanceness1910
mumchanciness1920
1815 J. Scott Visit to Paris iv. 58 The officer resisted conversation with more firmness than is usual in France..and shut himself up in almost total incommunicativeness.
1872 J. L. Sanford Estimates Eng. Kings: Charles I 335 The overt act of a lie seemed frequently the best method of incommunicativeness.
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