adv. & adj. Without the means or right of communicating with others: a prisoner held incommunicado; incommunicado political detainees. [Spanish incomunicado, past participle of incomunicar, to deny communication : in-, not (from Latin; see IN-1) + comunicar, to communicate (from Latin commūnicāre; see COMMUNICATE).] |
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