incommunicative Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective not inclined to talk or give information or express opinions
    uncommunicative.

WordNet


In`com*mu"ni*ca*tive adjective
Definitions
  1. Not communicative; not free or apt to impart to others in conversation; reserved; silent; as, the messenger was incommunicative; hence, not disposed to hold fellowship or intercourse with others; exclusive.
    The Chinese . . . an incommunicative nation. C. Buchanan.
    -- In`com*mu"ni*ca*tive*ly, adv. -- In`com*mu"ni*ca*tive*ness, n. Lamb.
    His usual incommunicativeness. G. Eliot.

Webster 1913