Unaffectionate
adj
adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 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 lacking affection or warm feeling wordnet
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From un- + affectionate.
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