Entry Word: uncommunicative

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 deliberately refraining from speech <the child was uncommunicative and unhelpful to school investigators> — see silent 1
2 given to keeping one's activities hidden from public observation or knowledge <intelligence agencies must be uncommunicative about their operations if they are to be at all effective> — see secretive
3 tending not to speak frequently (as by habit or inclination) <resigned to the fact that her husband was always going to be an uncommunicative partner> — see silent 2