Reserved; taciturn

Usage examples of uncommunicative.

But Slanter was a garrulous fellow, and his uncommunicative posture was disquieting.

Court had left Susanna at the hotel, he rode on to a chophouse where he ate dinner with various business acquaintances who happened to be there and who found him rather uncommunicative, considering the interest of the latest Packard tale.

At first we were much puzzled as to the origin and constitution of this extraordinary race, points upon which they were singularly uncommunicative.

Joseph thought he recognized the one who had taken the combinant from him as the head man of the village, but he was not sure, since they were so uncommunicative here.

He'd only been out of arrest a couple of hours when Bancroft asked him to run me back, and he'd been sullen and uncommunicative on the journey.

Blake was sullen and uncommunicative, still angry because Eller had been proved so right.

If I remember correctly, die piece extends as a hypothetical dialogue between die poet and his uncommunicative soul, in which die poet interrogates his inner being as to where, exacdy, he might find his own fulfillment.

If I remember correctly, the piece extends as a hypothetical dialogue between the poet and his uncommunicative soul, in which the poet interrogates his inner being as to where, exactly, he might find his own fulfillment.

Uncommunicative as I am by nature (he disappears and reappears at the middle window), I am still more so when compelled to hold converse with two such ornaments of their sex (he disappears and reappears at the right-hand window) through a lattice window.

Perhaps it was what they had learned from Niigata that chilled them so, but both were sober and uncommunicative as they reached the small clearing beyond which was the bridge to the shrine.

She picked up another one of those little white glass polyhedrons and turned its uncommunicative shape thoughtfully in her good hand.

Gil's hands were full of bits and pieces of meaningless tools, half a dozen jewels of varying sizes she'd found in a lead box, and two or three of the new polyhedrons, frosted gray instead of milky, but just as uncommunicative.

Spindle and Quick Ben were next to useless, unable and unwilling to test the taste of their warrens, pallid and shaky and uncommunicative.