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Unable to have contact with other people
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incommunicado
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Word definitions for incommunicado in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. without the means or right to communicate; "a prisoner held incommunicado"; "incommunicado political detainees"
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adverb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES hold sb incommunicado (= keep someone somewhere and not allow them to communicate with anyone )
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1844, American English, from Spanish incomunicado, past participle of incomunicar "deprive of communication," from in- "not" + comunicar "communicate," from Latin communicare "to share, impart" (see communication ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. In a state or condition in which one is unable or unwilling to communicate. adv. In a manner in which communication with outsiders is not possible, for either voluntary or involuntary reasons, especially due to confinement or reclusiveness.
Usage examples of incommunicado.
He remained incommunicado until several days after the shares entered the market, leaving Isherwood to make all the decisions by himself.
CIA says they are being held incommunicado in Tripoli while Qaddafi decides what to do with them.
The charge against him was one which was ordinarily bailable, but he could not get bail without contacting some one to put it up for him, and he was being kept strictly incommunicado.
On his first attempt to contact their confidential maildrop, he had been advised by old Ambridge, her chauffeur, that less than a week following their last stolen evening together, she had been sequestered at her husband's palace in Rudolpho, capital of the Torond, incommunicado.
The dear people were afraid I might commit suicide if left alone, and since no other friends were available (Miss Opposite was incommunicado, the McCoos were busy building a new house miles away, and the Chatfields had been recently called to Maine by some family trouble of their own), Leslie and Louise were commissioned to keep me company under the pretense of helping me to sort out and pack a multitude of orphaned things.
Then, when Gomez went incommunicado, I decided to go up to the valley and see if there was a stakeout.