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Unaffectionate

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    lacking affection or warm feeling wordnet

Etymology

From un- + affectionate.

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