Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Impossible to be transmitted; not communicable.
- adjective Incommunicative.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not communicable; incapable of being communicated, told, or imparted to others.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not communicable; incapable of being communicated, shared, told, or imparted, to others.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of a disease, etc. That cannot be
communicated ortransmitted - adjective of a person Who does not
communicate freely;uncommunicative orreserved
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Examples
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It was given to her to know that which an artist of living memory has called the incommunicable thrill of things ....
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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It was given to her to know that which an artist of living memory has called the incommunicable thrill of things ....
The Dwelling Place of Light — Volume 1 Winston Churchill 1909
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It was given to her to know that which an artist of living memory has called the incommunicable thrill of things ....
The Dwelling Place of Light — Complete Winston Churchill 1909
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There would be, for instance, no less than eight or nine of those great slowly moving words, like 'incommunicable' or 'importunate' written down, not so much to express an inevitable idea as to fill an inevitable space; and thus the poems seem to lose their pungency by the slow absorption of painfully sought agglutinations of syllables, with a stately music of their own, of course, but garnered rather than engendered.
Joyous Gard Arthur Christopher Benson 1893
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Michael, his forefeet on the gunwale, barked to him in a puzzled, questioning sort of way, and Jerry whimpered back incommunicable understanding.
CHAPTER XXIV 2010
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And it would seem to Michael that on one side, clinging to him, Cocky talked farrago in his ear, and on the other side Sara clung to him and chattered an interminable and incommunicable tale.
CHAPTER XXX 2010
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Deep religious experience is always indescribable and usually incommunicable.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life.
Le Milieu, Le Moment, La Race: Literary Naturalism in Jack London's White Fang 2010
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Deep religious experience is always indescribable and usually incommunicable.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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Laws' other claim is that religious belief is, for all except the holder, "incommunicable by any kind of proof or evidence", and that the truth of it "lies only in the heart of the believer".
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