Synonyms for incommunicable
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : in-kuh-myoo-ni-kuh-buh l |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌɪn kəˈmyu nɪ kə bəl |
Top 10 synonyms for incommunicable Other synonyms for the word incommunicable
- calamitous
- clammed up
- close
- close-mouthed
- cold
- curt
- defying description
- description
- detestable
- dire
- disgusting
- distant
- dour
- dreadful
- dried-up
- dumb
- evil
- execrable
- fearful
- frightening
- frightful
- heinous
- horrible
- horrid
- incommunicative
- inconceivable
- indefinable
- indescribable
- ineffable
- inexpressible
- inhuman
- laconic
- loathsome
- monstrous
- mum
- mute
- nameless
- obnoxious
- odious
- offensive
- outrageous
- overwhelming
- preternatural
- quiet
- repellent
- repugnant
- repulsive
- reserved
- reticent
- revolting
- sententious
- shocking
- silent
- sparing
- speechless
- tight-lipped
- tightlipped
- unbelievable
- uncommunicable
- uncommunicative
- undescribable
- unexpressive
- unforthcoming
- unimaginable
- unutterable
- withdrawn
Définition of incommunicable
Origin :- 1560s, "not communicative," from in- (1) "not" + communicable. Sense of "not able to be communicated" first recorded 1570s. Related: Incommunicably.
- adj unspeakable
- adj taciturn
- Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.
- Extract from : « My Antonia » by Willa Cather
- Men burthened with great sorrows know them to be incommunicable.
- Extract from : « A Sheaf of Corn » by Mary E. Mann
- It was something unique, peculiar to himself and incommunicable.
- Extract from : « The Combined Maze » by May Sinclair
- Each experience was solitary, unique, it had its own incommunicable quality.
- Extract from : « The Creators » by May Sinclair
- The perception of this harmony is their only and incommunicable proof.
- Extract from : « Robert Falconer » by George MacDonald
- There are ways of managing these men that are incommunicable.
- Extract from : « My Wife and I » by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Now the self has just the opposite characteristic: it is incommunicable.
- Extract from : « The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life » by Emile Durkheim
- For there was a fascination in the man, incommunicable by another, and my despair as I write.
- Extract from : « Some Persons Unknown » by E. W. Hornung
- And it is just this that makes life so hard to value, and the delight of each so incommunicable.
- Extract from : « Across the Plains » by Robert Louis Stevenson
- There is a unity and a perfection in it of an incommunicable kind.
- Extract from : « Famous European Artists » by Sarah K. Bolton
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