incommunicative

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English

Etymology

From in- +‎ communicative.

Adjective

incommunicative (comparative more incommunicative, superlative most incommunicative)

  1. Uncommunicative.
    • 1983 August 13, John Rosario, “Illustrious Obscurity”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 5, page 16:
      The author tries hard to breathe life into his subject, but it seems there was little vitality left in the octogenarian Djuna. At her best she was vituperative and incommunicative. She says to Mr. Field that he has come too late to write a book about her.

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