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Meanings of incommunicative in English

Not inclined to talk or give information or express opinions.

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      Usage of incommunicative in English
      1
      I am naturally a silent and incommunicative sort of character.
      True Stories of History and Biography
      2
      With those who claimed my admiration and affection, it was impossible to be incommunicative.
      Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
      3
      He gazed helplessly at Suiren, who lay unmoving and incommunicative.
      The Dragon King’s Palace
      4
      He seemed to her disagreeably incommunicative, and she had found an ignoble explanation of his mood.
      The Helpmate
      5
      His evenings he spent in incommunicative silence.
      Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker
      6
      Indeed, I did not discover that Melindy could talk that day; she was very silent, very incommunicative.
      The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 02, December, 1857 / A Maga...
      7
      After some moments Lanyard, with a start, found himself staring blankly at a blankly incommunicative communicating door.
      The False Faces: Further Adventures from the History of the Lone...
      8
      It was the day after the conspiracy; Doña Violante and her daughters were incommunicative and in ugly humour.
      The Quest
      9
      We spent rather an incommunicative evening.
      The Blithedale Romance
      10
      Its only flaws are rubbery, incommunicative steering, and the fact that its price is creeping up a little these days.
      The Irish Times
      11
      The clerk found him to the last degree incommunicative; and nothing could be discovered from him but what the papers disclosed.
      Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.
      12
      He was cold, incommunicative, aloof; and there was something about him that made the sensitive Shefford feel his presence was resented.
      The Rainbow Trail
      13
      I had observed that he was shy, incommunicative-seekingto avoid me, as, according to their showing, he had striven to avoid his parents.
      Confession; Or, The Blind Heart. A Domestic Story
      14
      He was not a man who was hard to live with, he was civilized and had manners though he could seem incommunicative at times.
      All That Is
      15
      Incommunicative as he was, some time elapsed before I had an opportunity of gauging his mind.
      Jane Eyre: An Autobiography
      16
      I am naturally a silent and incommunicative sort of character.
      True Stories of History and Biography
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