Thesaurus / uncommunicative

uncommunicative

How to use uncommunicative in a sentence

Inside the main cabin, the family huddled before the fire, as uncommunicative as cattle.

Smith was unusually absent and uncommunicative, to such a degree that Nickelsen at last asked him point blank what was the matter.

DRY FISH AND WETANTHON BERNHARD ELIAS NILSEN

The chief distinction in the temperament of the sexes is that the men are frank and talkative, the women shy and uncommunicative.

Here are two stray utterances, worth gathering from a man so uncommunicative in that form.

But the young ladies were arch and uncommunicative, pretending that their attention was engaged in their hospitable duties.

Whether they had any traditions or not we are not informed—we only know that Stanley found them extremely uncommunicative.

STANLEY'S ADVENTURES IN THE WILDS OF AFRICAJOEL TYLER HEADLEY AND WILLIAM FLETCHER JOHNSON

He must have been equally uncommunicative to my mother, for she never mentioned your existence.

Aunt Eliza was brutally uncommunicative; but she was overheard to remark casually that she thought the man must be a lunatic.

THE GOLDEN AGEKENNETH GRAHAME

"Rupert has the gift of being exasperatingly uncommunicative," his brother told her.

But, here as elsewhere, England is uncommunicative, and you may pass angels unawares.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985