Meaning & use
incommunicado
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Not able, or not willing, to communicate with other people, or held without the ability to contact anyone.
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The negotiator was kept incommunicado during the final days of the deal.
He went incommunicado for a week while finishing his novel in a remote cabin.
A note on using this word
Also functions as an adverb, as in 'held incommunicado.' Borrowed from Spanish, originally referring to a prisoner denied outside contact.
Words with a similar meaning
isolatedunreachable
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Words with an opposite meaning
reachableaccessible
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