Noncommittal vs Umbrage - What's the difference?
noncommittal | umbrage |
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.
Feeling of anger or annoyance caused by something offensive.
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Feeling of doubt.
Leaves that provide shade, as the foliage of trees
(obsolete) shadow, shade
* 1602 , , act V scene 1
To displease or cause offense.
To shade.
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 umbrage is
feeling of anger or annoyance caused by something offensive.As a verb umbrage is
to displease or cause offense.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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Derived terms
*noncommittallyReferences
umbrage
English
Noun
(en noun)- --He took umbrage at something or other, that muchinjured but on the whole eventempered person declared, I let slip.
- [...] but in the verity of extolment I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of him, his semblable in his mirror, and who else would trace him, his umbrage , nothing more.