"uncommunicative" meaning in English

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Adjective

Audio: en-us-uncommunicative.ogg [US] Forms: more uncommunicative [comparative], most uncommunicative [superlative]
Etymology: un- + communicative Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|un|communicative}} un- + communicative Head templates: {{en-adj}} uncommunicative (comparative more uncommunicative, superlative most uncommunicative)
  1. Tending not to communicate; not communicating. Categories (topical): Talking, Writing Translations (tending not to communicate; not communicating): необщителен (neobštitelen) (Bulgarian), nekomunikema (Esperanto), unkommunikativ (German), maulfaul (German), hallgatag (Hungarian), zárkózott (Hungarian), szófukar (Hungarian), تودار (tudâr) (Persian), ít nói (Vietnamese)

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      "sense": "tending not to communicate; not communicating",
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