UNCOMMUNICATIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does uncommunicative mean? 

• UNCOMMUNICATIVE (adjective)
  The adjective UNCOMMUNICATIVE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: UNCOMMUNICATIVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNCOMMUNICATIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not inclined to talk or give information or express opinions

Synonyms:

incommunicative; uncommunicative

Similar:

close; closelipped; closemouthed; secretive; tightlipped (inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information)

deadpan; expressionless; impassive; poker-faced; unexpressive (deliberately impassive in manner)

incommunicado (without the means or right to communicate)

inexpressive (not expressive)

mum; silent (failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to)

unpronounceable; unutterable (very difficult to pronounce correctly)

Also:

inarticulate; unarticulate (without or deprived of the use of speech or words)

taciturn (habitually reserved and uncommunicative)

Antonym:

communicative (able or tending to communicate)

Derivation:

uncommunicativeness (the trait of being uncommunicative)

 Context examples 

An indirect pain assessment scale used by nurses and other professionals to evaluate level of pain/discomfort in demented or otherwise uncommunicative patients. (Kanner).

(Discomfort Scale for Patients with Dementia of the Alzheimer's Type, NCI Thesaurus)

The gentleman who saw me was particularly suave in manner, but uncommunicative in equal proportion.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)