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Noncommitted vs Noncommittal - What's the difference?

noncommitted | noncommittal |

As adjectives the difference between noncommitted and noncommittal

is that noncommitted is not committed while noncommittal is tending to avoid commitment; lacking certainty or decisiveness; reluctant to give out information or show one's feelings or opinion.

noncommitted

English

Adjective

(-)
  • not committed

    • 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