In`com*mu"ni*ca*tive (?), a.
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.
© Webster 1913.