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词汇 uncommunicative
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Definition of uncommunicative in English:

uncommunicative

adjectiveʌnkəˈmjuːnɪkətɪv
  • 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    • Mayfield saw that Arning, who was withdrawn and uncommunicative, quickly found a means of expression through drawing.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    • At times she became profoundly withdrawn and totally uncommunicative; at other times she was wildly excited, violent, and destructive.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    • Duncan, a precocious, affectionate child, had failed to live up to his academic potential, and had become withdrawn and uncommunicative.
    • While for some, video games conjure up the image of the socially withdrawn and uncommunicative male, the milieu of video games is intensely social.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

Derivatives

  • uncommunicatively

  • adverbˌʌnkəˈmjuːnɪkətɪvli
    • His work with Gray opened up the possibility of playing the self-destructive and chaotic, without ever allowing them to slip into something uncommunicatively self-pitying.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • However Hasselhoff is allowed to grunt uncommunicatively at them via a telephone as often as he likes.
      • In the worst cases, such calls provoke battles royal at home, solving nothing but invariably making things worse, both sides setting their jaws immovably and therefore uncommunicatively.
      • Neither of us said anything, and Brixton was uncommunicatively engaged in reading a railroad report.
  • uncommunicativeness

  • nounˌʌnkəˈmjuːnɪkətɪvnəs
    • And this is about the processes that entrench a society and maintain its autism and uncommunicativeness with the world and modern times.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It seems unlikely that overnight my son has developed the male propensity for uncommunicativeness.
      • Another character in the film, He Zhiuru, takes uncommunicativeness to the ultimate level; he has been mute since age five.
      • The interview below is an example of his long-standing uncommunicativeness concerning any criminal active by himself or any others.
      • The majority of the patients experienced a significant improvement in the areas of hostility, uncommunicativeness, uncooperativeness, and repetitive behavior.

Definition of uncommunicative in US English:

uncommunicative

adjective
  • 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. 1.1 (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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