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Noncommittal vs Nonanswer - What's the difference?

noncommittal | nonanswer |

As an adjective noncommittal

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

As a noun nonanswer is

the lack of an answer.

noncommittal

English

Alternative forms

* non-commital * noncommital * non-committal

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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

    References

    nonanswer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The lack of an answer.
  • An answer that is so vague or noncommittal as to be worthless.