Uncommunicative
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

MUM
Secrecy; "mum's the word"

SHY
A quick throw; "he gave the ball a shy to the first baseman"

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CURT
Brief and to the point; effectively cut short; "a crisp retort"; "a response so curt as to be almost rude"; "the laconic reply; `yes'"; "short and terse and easy to understand"

MUTE
A device used to soften the tone of a musical instrument

COLD
The sensation produced by low temperatures; "he shivered from the cold"; "the cold helped clear his head"

DUMB
Unable to speak because of hereditary deafness

DEEP
Literary term for an ocean; "denizens of the deep"

COOL
Loose heat; "The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm"

DOUR
Stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"

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CAGEY
Showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others; "a cagey lawyer"; "too clever to be sound"

GARBO
United States film actress (born in Sweden) known for her reclusiveness (1905-1990)

CLOSE
The concluding part of any performance

QUIET
A disposition free from stress or emotion

SHORT
(of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short memory"

ALOOF
Remote in manner; "stood apart with aloof dignity"; "a distant smile"; "he was upstage with strangers"

BLANK
A blank gap or missing part

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SECRET
Something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained; "how it got out is a mystery"; "it remains one of nature's secrets"

REMOTE
A device that can be used to control a machine or apparatus from a distance; "he lost the remote for his TV"

ZIPPED

SILENT
Unable to speak because of hereditary deafness

OFFISH
Lacking cordiality; unfriendly; "a standoffish manner"

HUSHED
In a softened tone; "hushed voices"; "muted trumpets"; "a subdued whisper"; "a quiet reprimand"

FELINE
Any of various lithe-bodied roundheaded fissiped mammals, many with retractile claws

COVERT
A covering that serves to conceal or shelter something; "a screen of trees afforded privacy"; "under cover of darkness"; "the brush provided a covert for game"; "the simplest concealment is to match perfectly the color of the background"

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EVASIVE
Deliberately vague or ambiguous; "his answers were brief, constrained and evasive"; "an evasive statement"

DRIEDUP

FURTIVE
Secret and sly or sordid; "backstairs gossip"; "his low backstairs cunning"- A.L.Guerard; "backstairs intimacies"; "furtive behavior"

DISTANT
Located far away spatially; "distant lands"; "remote stars"

GUARDED
Prudent; "guarded optimism"

LACONIC
Brief and to the point; effectively cut short; "a crisp retort"; "a response so curt as to be almost rude"; "the laconic reply; `yes'"; "short and terse and easy to understand"

CRYPTIC
Having a puzzling terseness; "a cryptic note"

SPARING
Avoiding waste; "an economical meal"; "an economical shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty because they remember the great Depression"; "`scotch' is used only informally"

8 letters

BROODING
Persistent morbid meditation on a problem

DETACHED
No longer connected or joined; "a detached part"; "on one side of the island was a hugh rock, almost detached"; "the separated spacecraft will return to their home bases"

RETICENT
Reluctant to draw attention to yourself

RETIRING
Of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office; "a retiring member of the board"

CLAMLIKE

RESERVED
Marked by self-restraint and reticence; "was habitually reserved in speech, withholding her opinion"-Victoria Sackville-West

HUSHHUSH

TACITURN
Habitually reserved and uncommunicative

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SECRETIVE
Inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information; "although they knew her whereabouts her friends kept close about it"

INPRIVACY

VOICELESS
Uttered without voice; "could hardly hear her breathed plea, `Help me'"; "voiceless whispers"

DUMMIEDUP

CLAMMEDUP

WITHDRAWN
Withdrawn from society; seeking solitude; "lived an unsocial reclusive life"

INPRIVATE
Kept private or confined to those intimately concerned; "it was discussed privately between the two men"; "privately, she thought differently"; "some member of his own party hoped privately for his defeat"; "he was questioned in private"

ENIGMATIC
Resembling an oracle in obscurity of thought; "the oracular sayings of Victorian poets"; "so enigmatic that priests might have to clarify it"; "an enigmatic smile"

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INCOHERENT
Unable to express yourself clearly or fluently; "felt tongue-tied with embarrassment"; "incoherent with grief"

UNFRIENDLY
Not easy to understand or use; "user-unfriendly"

UNDERCOVER
Conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods; "clandestine intelligence operations"; "cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines"; "hole-and-corner intrigue"; "secret missions"; "a secret agent"; "secret sales of arms"; "surreptitious mobilization of troops"; "an undercover investigation"; "underground resistance"

SPEECHLESS
Temporarily incapable of speaking; "struck dumb"; "speechless with shock"

INCHAMBERS

BACKSTAIRS
A second staircase at the rear of a building

ANTISOCIAL
Hostile to or disruptive of normal standards of social behavior; "criminal behavior or conduct that violates the rights of other individuals is antisocial"; "crimes...and other asocial behavior"; "an antisocial deed"

BUTTONEDUP

UNSOCIABLE
Not inclined to society or companionship; "an unsociable nature...shy and reserved"; "generally unsociable except with intimate friends"; "unsociable behavior"; "an unsociable neighborhood"

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STANDOFFISH
Lacking cordiality; unfriendly; "a standoffish manner"

TIGHTLIPPED
Inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information; "although they knew her whereabouts her friends kept close about it"

LOWSOUNDING

INDIFFERENT
Being neither good nor bad; "an indifferent performance"; "a gifted painter but an indifferent actor"; "her work at the office is passable"; "a so-so golfer"; "feeling only so-so"; "prepared a tolerable dinner"; "a tolerable working knowledge of French"

SENTENTIOUS
Concise and full of meaning; "welcomed her pithy comments"; "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen

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UNEXPRESSIVE
Deliberately impassive in manner; "deadpan humor"; "his face remained expressionless as the verdict was read"

CLOSEMOUTHED
Inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information; "although they knew her whereabouts her friends kept close about it"

DISAPPROVING
Expressing or manifesting disapproval

UNRESPONSIVE
Aloof or indifferent; "was unresponsive to her passionate advances"

UNINTERESTED
Having no care or interest in knowing; "she appeared totally uninterested"

13 letters

UNFORTHCOMING

14 letters

UNAPPROACHABLE
Inaccessibly located or situated; "an unapproachable chalet high in the mountains"; "an unreachable canyon"; "the unreachable stars"

EXPRESSIONLESS
Deliberately impassive in manner; "deadpan humor"; "his face remained expressionless as the verdict was read"

UNINTELLIGIBLE
Poorly articulated or enunciated, or drowned by noise; "unintelligible speech"

15 letters

INCOMMUNICATIVE
Not inclined to talk or give information or express opinions

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NONPARTICIPATING