incommunicado








adjective

  1. (especially of a prisoner) deprived of any communication with others.

adverb, adjective

  1. (postpositive) deprived of communication with other people, as while in solitary confinement
adj./adv.

1844, American English, from Spanish incomunicado, past participle of incomunicar “deprive of communication,” from in- “not” + comunicar “communicate,” from Latin communicare “to share, impart” (see communication).

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