What does incommunicado mean?

Definitions for incommunicado
ˌɪn kəˌmyu nɪˈkɑ doʊin·com·mu·ni·ca·do

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. incommunicadoadjective

    without the means or right to communicate

    "a prisoner held incommunicado"; "incommunicado political detainees"

Wiktionary

  1. incommunicadoadverb

    In a manner in which communication with outsiders is not possible, for either voluntary or involuntary reasons, especially due to confinement or reclusiveness.

  2. incommunicadoadjective

    In a state or condition in which one is unable or unwilling to communicate.

  3. Etymology: From incomunicado "incommunicado", with spelling influenced by that of such English words as communicate.

Wikipedia

  1. Incommunicado

    Incommunicado, from the Spanish incomunicado, means "cut off from contact", "impossible to reach".

ChatGPT

  1. incommunicado

    Incommunicado refers to a state or condition in which one is unable or not allowed to communicate with others, typically due to imprisonment, solitary confinement, or being in a remote or inaccessible location.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of incommunicado in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of incommunicado in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of incommunicado in a Sentence

  1. Brad Adams:

    Holding a witness to alleged military crimes incommunicado for six days is a profoundly disturbing abuse of authority that has become commonplace under martial law.

  2. Nicholas Daniloff:

    The Russians seized Brittney Griner and Brittney Griner's incommunicado. ... The Russians's very possible that Brittney Griner's being held in the sort of a prison where I was taken -- an isolation prison.

  3. Ahmed Shaheed:

    Fundamental problems also exist with regard to the due process and fair trial rights of the accused, i continue to receive frequent and alarming reports about the use of prolonged solitary and incommunicado confinement, torture and ill-treatment, lack of access to lawyers and the use of confessions solicited under torture as evidence in trials - practices that clearly violate Iran's own laws.

  4. Ahmed Shaheed:

    I continue to receive frequent and alarming reports about the use of prolonged solitary and incommunicado confinement, torture and ill-treatment, lack of access to lawyers and the use of confessions solicited under torture as evidence in trials - practices that clearly violate Iran's own laws.

  5. Juan Pappier:

    When thousands of Cubans took to the streets in July, the Cuban government responded with a brutal strategy of repression designed to instill fear and suppress dissent, peaceful protesters and other critics have been systematically detained, held incommunicado and abused in horrendous conditions, and subjected to sham trials following patterns that indicate these human rights violations are not the actions of rogue agents.

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