Noncommittal vs Committal - What's the difference?
noncommittal | committal | Related terms |
Tending to avoid commitment; lacking certainty or decisiveness; reluctant to give out information or show one's feelings or opinion.
*1818 , S.R. Wells, The American Phrenonological Journal, and other miscellany , v. 10,
*:[He] is candid, open-hearted, and hardly non-commmittal enough for his own interest at times.
The act of entrusting something to someone.
The act of committing someone to confinement; an order for someone's imprisonment.
The act of perpetrating an offence.
The act of committing a body to the grave at a burial or to the furnace at a cremation.
Of or relating to a committee.
Committal is a related term of noncommittal.
As adjectives the difference between noncommittal and committal
is that noncommittal is tending to avoid commitment; lacking certainty or decisiveness; reluctant to give out information or show one's feelings or opinion while committal is of or relating to a committee.As a noun committal is
the act of entrusting something to someone.noncommittal
English
Alternative forms
* non-commital * noncommital * non-committalAdjective
(en adjective)- The Major's face was noncommittal .
- The noncommittal Indians would give no counsel as to fording.
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