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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 In·com·mu·ni·ca·tive a. Not communicative; not free or apt to impart to others in conversation; reserved; silent; as, the messenger was incommunicative; hence, not disposed to hold fellowship or intercourse with others; exclusive.
    The Chinese . . . an incommunicative nation.   --C. Buchanan.
 -- In*com*mu*ni*ca*tive*ly, adv. -- In*com*mu*ni*ca*tive*ness, n.
    His usual incommunicativeness.   --G. Eliot.