incommunicative

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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adj

"The author tries hard to breathe life into his subject, but it seems there was little vitality left in the octogenarian Djuna. At her best she was vituperative and incommunicative. She says to Mr. Field that he has come too late to write a book about her."

From in- + communicative.

more incommunicative (comparative) most incommunicative (superlative)

incommunicatively incommunicativeness

uncommunicative

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