incommunicado en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- [ɪnkəmjunɨˈkɑːdoʊ] (General-American)
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish incomunicado, with spelling influenced by such English words as communicate.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) In a state or condition of inability or unwillingness to communicate.
The father of a woman living in the incommunicado world of the Big Brother house in Australia has died but his daughter has not been told.
2007 May 25, “Dreadful news awaits housemate”, in Times Online, London, retrieved 29 Jun 2007:Navalny, who has been sentenced to nearly three decades in prison, disappeared from a prison in the Vladimir region near Moscow last week, and was suspected to have been transferred into a “special regime” colony, where he could be held incommunicado under Russia’s harshest prison regime for years.
2023 December 18, Andrew Roth, “Russian courts halt cases against Alexei Navalny after jailed activist disappears”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2025:As the storm, described by the National Hurricane Center as “potentially catastrophic,” moved toward the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico on Tuesday, little could be learned about the conditions on Dominica. By early Tuesday morning, phone and internet signals on Dominica appeared to be down, leaving the island virtually incommunicado.
2017 August 19, “Hurricane Maria Does ‘Mind-Boggling’ Damage to Dominica, Leader Says”, in The New York Times, Mexico City, archived from the original on 25 Feb 2021, retrieved 21 Aug 2017:He is believed to be holed up, incommunicado, for the fear of being assassinated by Israel. Even top government officials apparently have had no contact with him.
2025 June 26, Kasra Naji, “When Iran's supreme leader emerges from hiding he will find a very different nation”, in BBC, archived from the original on 05 Jul 2025:
Deriveds
incommunicada · miscommunicado
Hyponyms
Translations (6)
de unerreichbar (in a state or condition of inability or unwillingness to communicate) · de abgeschnitten (in a state or condition of inability or unwillingness to communicate) · de nicht erreichbar (in a state or condition of inability or unwillingness to communicate) · eo senkomunikiĝa (in a state or condition of inability or unwillingness to communicate) · de isoliert (in a state or condition of inability or unwillingness to communicate) · es incomunicado (in a state or condition of inability or unwillingness to communicate)