noncommittal

English

Alternative forms

• non-commital
• noncommital
• non-committal

Etymology

non- +‎ committal

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /ˌnɒnkəˈmɪtl/
• (US) IPA: /ˌnɑnkəˈmɪtl/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

Adjective

noncommittal (comparative more noncommittal, superlative most noncommittal)

1. Tending to avoid commitment; lacking certainty or decisiveness; reluctant to give out information or show one's feelings or opinion.

   The Major's face was noncommittal.

   The noncommittal Indians would give no counsel as to fording.

   • 1818, S.R. Wells, The American Phrenonological Journal, and other miscellany, v. 10, p. 234:

     [He] is candid, open-hearted, and hardly non-commmittal enough for his own interest at times.

Derived terms

• noncommittally

Translations

Translations

• German: unverbindlich (de)

• Turkish: belirsiz (tr), müphem (tr)

References