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incommunicative

incommunicative adjective: uncommunicative.

Adjective

incommunicative (comparative more incommunicative, superlative most incommunicative)

  1. Uncommunicative.
    • 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.1983 August 13, John Rosario, “Illustrious Obscurity”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 5, page 16

Forms of incommunicative

comparativemore incommunicative
superlativemost incommunicative

Origin of incommunicative

From in- + communicative.

Words formed from incommunicative

Questions about incommunicative

What does incommunicative mean?
Incommunicative means uncommunicative.
What part of speech is incommunicative?
Incommunicative is an adjective.

Words near incommunicative in the dictionary

  1. incommunicada
  2. incommunicado
  3. incommunicate
  4. incommunicated
  5. incommunicating
  6. incommunicative
  7. incommunicatively
  8. incommunicativeness
  9. incommutability
  10. incommutable
  11. incommutably

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