incommunicado
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kəˌmyu adjective
(especially of a prisoner) deprived of any communication with others.
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| —adv, —adj | |
| (postpositive) deprived of communication with other people, as while in solitary confinement | |
| [C19: from Spanish incomunicado, from incomunicar to deprive of communication; see | |
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Incommunicado
has a plethora of syllables.
So is sesquipedalianism. Does it mean:
| a white, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C14H9Cl5, usually derived from chloral by reaction with chlorobenzene in the presence of fuming sulfuric acid: used as an insecticide and as a scabicide and pediculicide: agricultural use prohibited in the U.S. |
| given to using long words. |
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Word Origin & History
incommunicado
1844, Amer.Eng., from Sp. incomunicado, pp. of incomunicar "deprive of communication," from in- "not" + comunicar "communicate," from L. communicare "to share, impart," from communis (see common).
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Example sentences
On occasion authorities held detainees incommunicado.
The leading political figures of the day were held incommunicado.
There are no restrictions on the ability of the government to detain and imprison persons at will and to hold them incommunicado.
Its secret prisons, into which suspects are disappeared for incommunicado interrogation, remain open.
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