| 单词 | incommunicado |
| 释义 | incommunicado (once / 49454 pages) adj Someone who's incommunicado can't communicate with other people, either because they don't want to or because they're not able to. If you spend the weekend on an island with no cell service or Internet, you'll be incommunicado for a couple of days. When someone is arrested, they're briefly incommunicado, although legally they will eventually be able to make at least one phone call. Your parents will worry about you if you're suddenly incommunicado, especially if they're used to hearing from you several times a day and reading your regular social media posts. Incommunicado was coined in the U.S., from the Spanish incomunicado, "deprived of communication." WORD FAMILYincommunicado USAGE EXAMPLESBut for every such high-profile case in Gambia, countless other people remain incommunicado, often for unknown reasons. Seattle Times(Dec 06, 2016) “They are often held incommunicado and indefinitely, facing the risk of being subjected to torture and ill-treatment, extrajudicial killings or being disappeared.” The Guardian(Nov 30, 2016) “She has done nothing wrong, committed no criminal act and is now being held incommunicado in a holding cell.” New York Times(Oct 18, 2016) adj without the means or right to communicate a prisoner held incommunicado incommunicado political detainees Syn incommunicative, uncommunicative not inclined to talk or give information or express opinions |
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