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in|com|mu|ni|ca|do «_IHN kuh _MYOO nuh KAH doh», adverb, adjective, noun.

–adv.

so as not to communicate with others: »

The prisoner could not reach his lawyer or friends as he was being held incommunicado.

–adj.

without any way of communicating with others: »

The way in which this idea of incommunicado ego, unable to communicate with others, influenced Eliot's early poetry is apparent at once (New Yorker).

–n.

the state of being incommunicado; absence of communication: »

He experienced, in the agonizing incommunicado of sudden death, the most public private moment of his life (Jonathan Miller).

╂[American English < Spanish incomunicado]