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incommunicable - 4 dictionary results

in⋅com⋅mu⋅ni⋅ca⋅ble

  [in-kuh-myoo-ni-kuh-buhl]
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–adjective
1. incapable of being communicated, imparted, shared, etc.
2. not communicative; taciturn.
Origin:
1560–70; < LL incommūnicābilis. See in- 3 , communicable

Related forms:
in⋅com⋅mu⋅ni⋅ca⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, in⋅com⋅mu⋅ni⋅ca⋅ble⋅ness, noun
in⋅com⋅mu⋅ni⋅ca⋅bly, adverb
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in·com·mu·ni·ca·ble   (ĭn'kə-myōō'nĭ-kə-bəl)   
adj.  
  1. Impossible to be transmitted; not communicable: an incommunicable disease.
  2. Incommunicative: an executive who was maddeningly incommunicable.
in'com·mu'ni·ca·bil'i·ty n., in'com·mu'ni·ca·bly adv.
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Incommunicable

In`com*mu"ni*ca*ble\, a. [L. incommunicabilis: cf. F. incommunicable. See In- not, and Communicable.] Not communicable; incapable of being communicated, shared, told, or imparted, to others.

Health and understanding are incommunicable. --Southey.

Those incommunicable relations of the divine love. --South. -- In`com*mu"ni*ca*ble*ness, n. -- In`com*mu"ni*ca*bly, adv.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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incommunicable 
1568, "not communicative," from in- "not" + communicable (see communication). Sense of "not able to be communicated" first recorded 1577.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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