Word Meanings - INCOMMUNICATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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
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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.
Related words: (words related to INCOMMUNICATIVE)
- RESERVE
1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen. - DISPOSEMENT
Disposal. Goodwin. - COMMUNICATIVENESS
The quality of being communicative. Norris. - DISPOSURE
1. The act of disposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction. Give up My estate to his disposure. Massinger. 2. Disposition; arrangement; position; posture. In a kind of warlike disposure. Sir H. Wotton. - DISPOSITED
Disposed. Glanvill. - CHINESE
Of or pertaining to China; peculiar to China. Chinese paper. See India paper, under India. -- Chinese wax, a snowy-wgite, waxlike substance brought from China. It is the bleached secretion of certain insects of the family Coccidæ especially Coccus - DISPOSITOR
The planet which is lord of the sign where another planet is. Crabb. (more info) 1. A disposer. - DISPOSEDNESS
The state of being disposed or inclined; inclination; propensity. - DISPOSSESS
To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown. Usurp the land, and dispossess - FELLOWSHIP
1. The state or relation of being or associate. 2. Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse. In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods. - FELLOWSHIP; GOOD FELLOWSHIP
companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. Shak. - IMPARTIAL
Not partial; not favoring one more than another; treating all alike; unprejudiced; unbiased; disinterested; equitable; fair; just. Shak. Jove is impartial, and to both the same. Dryden. A comprehensive and impartial view. Macaulay. - DISPOSED
1. Inclined; minded. When he was disposed to pass into Achaia. Acts xviii. 27. 2. Inclined to mirth; jolly. Beau. & Fl. Well disposed, in good condition; in good health. Chaucer. - INTERCOURSE
A This sweet intercourse Of looks and smiles. Milton. Sexual intercourse, sexual or carnal connection; coition. Syn. -- Communication; connection; commerce; communion; fellowship; familiarity; acquaintance. (more info) commerce, exchange, - DISPOSINGLY
In a manner to dispose. - IMPARTIALIST
One who is impartial. Boyle. - COMMUNICATIVE
Inclined to communicate; ready to impart to others. Determine, for the future, to be less communicative. Swift. - RESERVOR
One who reserves; a reserver. - DISPOSSESSOR
One who dispossesses. Cowley. - INCOMMUNICATIVE
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 - HEREHENCE
From hence. - WHENCEFORTH
From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser. - SELF-IMPARTING
Imparting by one's own, or by its own, powers and will. Norris. - SELF-COMMUNICATIVE
Imparting or communicating by its own powers. - INDO-CHINESE
Of or pertaining to Indo-China (i. e., Farther India, or India beyond the Ganges). - DISPOSE
Etym: 1. To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent. Who hath disposed the whole world Job xxxiv. 13. All ranged in order and disposed with grace. Pope. The rest themselves in - THENCEFROM
From that place. - FOREDISPOSE
To bestow beforehand. King James had by promise foredisposed the place on the Bishop of Meath. Fuller.