WOTW #1: Incommunicado

 

Incommunicado: without means of communication or without means of communication

 

Incommunicado describes someone who is not communicating with others, whether by choice or by something outside their control.

Examples:

1. The hurricane left much of the island incommunicado.

2. The lawyer will be incommunicado for the rest of the day because he wants to prepare for his case tomorrow.

3. The prisoner was held incommunicado for 2 weeks.

 

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