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Vinony

noncommittal

adjective

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˌnɒnkəˈmɪtl̩/ / /ˌnɑnkəˈmɪtl̩/

adj

Etymology: From non- + committal.

  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.”

noun

Etymology: From non- + committal.

  1. Failure to commit to a decision or course of action.

    “As a result of cowardly noncommittals during the immediate postelection period, there was so much strain on several black-white Democratic relationships that they approached open ruptures.”

  2. A voter etc. who has not yet committed to a decision.

    “Where they occur, in the Liberal increases in Quebec and Ontario for instance, they are offset by declines in the number of undecideds or noncommittals.”