incommunicado
adjective/ˌɪnkəˌmjuːnɪˈkɑːdəʊ/
/ˌɪnkəˌmjuːnɪˈkɑːdəʊ/
- without communicating with other people, because you are not allowed to or because you do not want to
- The prisoner has been held incommunicado for more than a week.
- She spent her fortieth birthday incommunicado, in Scotland.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryIncommunicado is used with these nouns:- detention
Word Originmid 19th cent.: from Spanish incomunicado, past participle of incomunicar ‘deprive of communication’.Definitions on the go
Look up any word in the dictionary offline, anytime, anywhere with the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary app.
Check pronunciation:
incommunicado