| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| incommunicado |
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| SYLLABICATION: | in·com·mu·ni·ca·do |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   n k -my n-kä d |
| ADVERB & ADJECTIVE: | Without the means or right of communicating with others: a prisoner held incommunicado; incommunicado political detainees. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Spanish incomunicado, past participle of incomunicar, to deny communication : in-, not (from Latin; see in–1) + comunicar, to communicate (from Latin comm nic re; see communicate).
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