Word.ws English Dictionary

unaffect

unaffect verb: to not affect.

Verb

unaffect (third-person singular simple present unaffects, present participle unaffecting, simple past and past participle unaffected)

  1. (nonstandard, rare, transitive) To not affect.
    • Griffith contends that properly applied the dressing described should afford relief from the moment of its application, and may be worn continuously for from one to six or eight weeks, bathing seeming to unaffect the adhesive properties of the plaster after once having set.1911, The Hahnemannian Monthly, volume 46, page 796, excerpting from St. Louis Medical Review

Forms of unaffect

third-person singular presentunaffects
present participleunaffecting
past participleunaffected
pastunaffected

Origin of unaffect

From un- + affect, perhaps a back-formation from unaffected.

Questions about unaffect

What does unaffect mean?
Unaffect means to not affect.
What part of speech is unaffect?
Unaffect is a verb.
What is the past tense of unaffect?
The past tense of unaffect is unaffected.

Words near unaffect in the dictionary

  1. unafeard
  2. unafeared
  3. unaffability
  4. unaffable
  5. unaffably
  6. unaffect
  7. unaffectability
  8. unaffectable
  9. unaffectatious
  10. unaffected
  11. unaffectedly

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unaffect (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “unaffect.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/unaffect. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.