Dictionary entry
Uncommunicative
Pronunciation: /ʌnkəˈmjuːnɪkətɪv/
Pronunciation
/ʌnkəˈmjuːnɪkətɪv/
Myanmar Meaning
နှုတ်ဆိတ်သော။
Definition
uncommunicative / ʌnkǝ'mju:nÇkǝtÇv / adj ႏႈတ္ဆိတ္ေသာ။
Examples
- ‘… Was my father so uncommunicative that I couldn't ever picture him in any close relationship?’
- ‘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.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘And if Namibians themselves are irritated
- then imagine the impressions of the visitor or tourist who almost always meets an unfriendly and uncommunicative face?’
- ‘The baby grows into a withdrawn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.’
- ‘But his usual easy-going charm seemed to have temporarily deserted him
- and she found him terse
- uncommunicative
- clearly unsettled by her absence.’
- ‘Calce
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- had troubles with the law in the past and was estranged from his parents
- who proved uncurious about his uncommunicative state.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘Remote and uncommunicative was their description as Whyte avoided the hoi polloi
- preferring to spend time with the corporate elite.’
- ‘It was quite astonishing how uncommunicative he was.’
- ‘Duncan
- a precocious
- affectionate child
- had failed to live up to his academic potential
- and had become withdrawn and uncommunicative.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘Mayfield saw that Arning
- who was withdrawn and uncommunicative
- quickly found a means of expression through drawing.’
- ‘Went back to J & S's for a cup of tea and a chat
- and I became largely uncommunicative due to burgeoning exhaustion…’
- ‘‘We appear to be
- my father and I
- compulsively uncommunicative but articulate
- ’ she says when I ask her about this statement.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘While for some
- video games conjure up the image of the socially withdrawn and uncommunicative male
- the milieu of video games is intensely social.’
- ‘At times she became profoundly withdrawn and totally uncommunicative; at other times she was wildly excited
- violent
- and destructive.’