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unaffectionate

unaffectionate adjective: not affectionate; dispassionate.

Adjective

unaffectionate (comparative more unaffectionate, superlative most unaffectionate)

  1. Not affectionate; dispassionate.
    • She was the granddaughter of the German Jewish banking magnate Jacob H. Schiff and was raised by a distant, unaffectionate mother so filled with assimilationist anxiety that she refused to let her daughter attend the debutante balls of other Jewish girls.2007 April 22, Jennifer Senior, “Tabloid Queen”, in New York Times

Forms of unaffectionate

comparativemore unaffectionate
superlativemost unaffectionate

Origin of unaffectionate

From un- + affectionate.

Words formed from unaffectionate

Questions about unaffectionate

What does unaffectionate mean?
Unaffectionate means not affectionate; dispassionate.
What part of speech is unaffectionate?
Unaffectionate is an adjective.

Words near unaffectionate in the dictionary

  1. unaffectedly
  2. unaffectedness
  3. unaffecteds
  4. unaffecting
  5. unaffection
  6. unaffectionate
  7. unaffectionately
  8. unaffectioned
  9. unaffections
  10. unaffects
  11. unaffianced

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