Noncommittal

Pronunciation

• RP IPA: /ËŒnÉ’nkəˈmɪtl/
• US IPA: /ËŒnÉ‘nkəˈmɪtl/

Alternative forms

• non-commital
• noncommital
• non-committal

Origin

- + committal

“non-committal, adj. and n.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary

Draft revision

class="example">June 2008

Full definition of noncommittal

Adjective

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.
• 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