Crossword clues for incommunicado
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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
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.
WordNet
adj. without the means or right to communicate; "a prisoner held incommunicado"; "incommunicado political detainees"
Wikipedia
Incommunicado, as an adjective or adverb, refers to a situation or a behaviour due to which communication with outsiders is not possible, for either voluntary or involuntary reasons, especially due to confinement or reclusiveness.
Incommunicado may also refer to:
- Incommunicado (album)
- "Incommunicado" (song)
- Solitary confinement, one of the ways in which a person can be held incommunicado.
Incommunicado is a song by the British neo-progressive rock band Marillion. It was the lead single from their fourth studio album Clutching at Straws. Released 11 May 1987, it reached number six in the UK Singles Chart, becoming the band's third top-ten hit, the last until 2004's " You're Gone". It became a minor hit on the Dutch Top 40 reaching number 31. The A-side is a fast, anthemic rock song with a repetitive chorus and a dominant keyboard sound, somewhat reminiscent of " Market Square Heroes". The extended version on the twelve inch and CD singles is slightly longer than the album version and features some additional sound effects. The b-side, the short, slow and introspective "Going Under", would also appear as a bonus track on the CD version of Clutching at Straws, in a slightly different version. Both tracks were written and arranged by Marillion and produced by Chris Kimsey.
The line "Currently residing in the where-are-they-now file" is a reference to a scene in the film This Is Spinal Tap.
A CD replica of the single was also part of a collectors box-set released in July 2000 which contained Marillion's first twelve singles and was re-issued as a 3-CD set in 2009 (see The Singles '82–'88).
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.