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Definition of uncommunicative in English: uncommunicativeadjectiveʌnkəˈmjuːnɪkətɪv Unwilling to talk or impart information. （人）不爱说话的；沉默寡言的 he had always been quiet and uncommunicative, having few friends the uncommunicative Emily disappeared Example sentencesExamples - ‘We appear to be, my father and I, compulsively uncommunicative but articulate,’ she says when I ask her about this statement.
- Philip Green, below, has a reputation for not being the easiest interviewee, but pity the poor soul who found him in uncommunicative mood when grilled by a financial website.
- But he is still seen by others as being rather serious and uncommunicative in public, especially when compared to the imaginative, publicity friendly ‘man of the people’ Dyke.
- Remote and uncommunicative was their description as Whyte avoided the hoi polloi, preferring to spend time with the corporate elite.
- Mayfield saw that Arning, who was withdrawn and uncommunicative, quickly found a means of expression through drawing.
- It was quite astonishing how uncommunicative he was.
- At times she became profoundly withdrawn and totally uncommunicative; at other times she was wildly excited, violent, and destructive.
- ‘She became really uncommunicative, angry with everybody and brutal to her mother,’ recalls Hardwicke.
- Hume wanted Specter to commit in advance to the proposition that a nominee's being only as uncommunicative as Ginsburg cannot justify a filibuster or even a ‘no’ vote.
- Duncan, a precocious, affectionate child, had failed to live up to his academic potential, and had become withdrawn and uncommunicative.
- While for some, video games conjure up the image of the socially withdrawn and uncommunicative male, the milieu of video games is intensely social.
- It is this primal, often uncommunicative nature of those who work the land and the seas, and therefore make up a fair percentage of the rural male population, that is at the core of these suicide statistics.
- But his usual easy-going charm seemed to have temporarily deserted him, and she found him terse, uncommunicative, clearly unsettled by her absence.
- Went back to J & S's for a cup of tea and a chat, and I became largely uncommunicative due to burgeoning exhaustion…
- Calce, 36, had troubles with the law in the past and was estranged from his parents, who proved uncurious about his uncommunicative state.
- … Was my father so uncommunicative that I couldn't ever picture him in any close relationship?
- And if Namibians themselves are irritated, then imagine the impressions of the visitor or tourist who almost always meets an unfriendly and uncommunicative face?
- Tolerance of long waiting times, lack of information, uncommunicative staff, and failures to seek patients' views and take account of their preferences is wearing thin.
- Yair, only a year or two younger than Maya, has become distant and uncommunicative.
- The baby grows into a withdrawn, uncommunicative girl who is sent to a special school because no-one knows that she was born under a holy star that gives her supernatural powers, making her invaluable to the Satanic fraternity.
Synonyms taciturn, reserved, shy, retiring, diffident, reticent, laconic, tongue-tied, at a loss for words, mute, quiet, unforthcoming, unconversational, untalkative, silent, tight-lipped, close-mouthed, guarded, secretive, secret, unresponsive, close, private, media-shy, distant, remote, aloof, withdrawn, stand-offish, unsociable, antisocial, unfriendly, clamlike, playing one's cards close to one's chest informal mum archaic mumchance, retired
Definition of uncommunicative in US English: uncommunicativeadjective 1(of a person) unwilling to talk or impart information. （人）不爱说话的；沉默寡言的 he had always been quiet and uncommunicative, having few friends the uncommunicative Emily disappeared Example sentencesExamples - Philip Green, below, has a reputation for not being the easiest interviewee, but pity the poor soul who found him in uncommunicative mood when grilled by a financial website.
- While for some, video games conjure up the image of the socially withdrawn and uncommunicative male, the milieu of video games is intensely social.
- The baby grows into a withdrawn, uncommunicative girl who is sent to a special school because no-one knows that she was born under a holy star that gives her supernatural powers, making her invaluable to the Satanic fraternity.
- Went back to J & S's for a cup of tea and a chat, and I became largely uncommunicative due to burgeoning exhaustion…
- At times she became profoundly withdrawn and totally uncommunicative; at other times she was wildly excited, violent, and destructive.
- Remote and uncommunicative was their description as Whyte avoided the hoi polloi, preferring to spend time with the corporate elite.
- But his usual easy-going charm seemed to have temporarily deserted him, and she found him terse, uncommunicative, clearly unsettled by her absence.
- Hume wanted Specter to commit in advance to the proposition that a nominee's being only as uncommunicative as Ginsburg cannot justify a filibuster or even a ‘no’ vote.
- But he is still seen by others as being rather serious and uncommunicative in public, especially when compared to the imaginative, publicity friendly ‘man of the people’ Dyke.
- Duncan, a precocious, affectionate child, had failed to live up to his academic potential, and had become withdrawn and uncommunicative.
- … Was my father so uncommunicative that I couldn't ever picture him in any close relationship?
- And if Namibians themselves are irritated, then imagine the impressions of the visitor or tourist who almost always meets an unfriendly and uncommunicative face?
- Yair, only a year or two younger than Maya, has become distant and uncommunicative.
- ‘She became really uncommunicative, angry with everybody and brutal to her mother,’ recalls Hardwicke.
- ‘We appear to be, my father and I, compulsively uncommunicative but articulate,’ she says when I ask her about this statement.
- It is this primal, often uncommunicative nature of those who work the land and the seas, and therefore make up a fair percentage of the rural male population, that is at the core of these suicide statistics.
- Tolerance of long waiting times, lack of information, uncommunicative staff, and failures to seek patients' views and take account of their preferences is wearing thin.
- Mayfield saw that Arning, who was withdrawn and uncommunicative, quickly found a means of expression through drawing.
- It was quite astonishing how uncommunicative he was.
- Calce, 36, had troubles with the law in the past and was estranged from his parents, who proved uncurious about his uncommunicative state.
Synonyms taciturn, reserved, shy, retiring, diffident, reticent, laconic, tongue-tied, at a loss for words, mute, quiet, unforthcoming, unconversational, untalkative, silent, tight-lipped, close-mouthed, guarded, secretive, secret, unresponsive, close, private, media-shy, distant, remote, aloof, withdrawn, stand-offish, unsociable, antisocial, unfriendly, clamlike, playing one's cards close to one's chest - 1.1 (of something such as writing or art) not conveying much or any meaning or sense.
Example sentencesExamples - But there is something unfulfilled about this intermittently sparkly but ultimately uncommunicative work.
- Further, an emphasis on socially engaged work makes it all too easy to excuse visual tedium, poor curatorial focus, or uncommunicative art as markers of an exhibition's authenticity.
- In an interview with the New York Times, Richter says he chose this painting for dissection precisely because it was ‘close to being uncommunicative.’
- You have, therefore, suggested that if there are anodyne, uncommunicative advertisements about using barristers of the general class, it does not fall foul of the regulations.
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