incommunicative

adjective

not communicative; reserved; uncommunicative.

Origin:
1660–70; in-³ + communicative

Related forms

in·com·mu·ni·ca·tive·ly, adverb

in·com·mu·ni·ca·tive·ness, noun

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incommunicative (ˌɪnkəˈmjuːnɪkətɪv)

—*adj*
	tending not to communicate with others; taciturn

incom'municatively

—*adv*

incom'municativeness

—n

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"I had observed that he did not wish to answer the same question more than once, and was often silent when it was put again for the sake of certainty, as if he were moody. Not that he was incommunicative, for he frequently commenced a long-winded narrative of his own accord,—repeated at length the tradition of some old battle, or some passage in the recent history of his tribe in which he had acted a prominent part, from time to time drawing a long breath, and resuming the thread of his tale, with the true story-teller's leisureliness, perhaps after shooting a rapid,—prefacing with "W-e-e-ll, by-by," etc., as he paddled along. Especially after the day's work was over, and he had put himself in posture for the night, he would be unexpectedly sociable, exhibit even the bonhommie of a Frenchman, and we would fall asleep before he got through his periods."

-Henry David Thoreau

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