Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not changed, modified, or affected.
- adjective Marked by lack of affectation; unpretentious or sincere. synonym: naive.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not affected.
- Not moved; not having the heart or passions touched; destitute of affection or emotion.
- Not showing affectation; plain; natural; not artificial; simple.
- Real; not pretended; sincere: as, unaffected sorrow.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not affected or moved; destitute of affection or emotion; uninfluenced.
- adjective Free from affectation; plain; simple; natural; real; sincere; genuine.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Lacking
pretense oraffectation ; natural. - noun Someone not
affected , as by adisease .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective free of artificiality; sincere and genuine
- adjective unaware of or indifferent to
- adjective undergoing no change when acted upon
- adjective emotionally unmoved
Etymologies
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Examples
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People don't like to believe this, but there is no way human beings can remain unaffected by what is done to other human beings, or even to animals who are not human.
A Letter to President Obama re: Torture Alice Walker Blog Administrator 2009
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People don't like to believe this, but there is no way human beings can remain unaffected by what is done to other human beings, or even to animals who are not human.
Archive 2009-07-01 Alice Walker Blog Administrator 2009
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Codon content and bonding explanations remain unaffected but function is gone.
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The only one left unaffected is the one refusing to take the vaccine.
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Codon content and bonding explanations remain unaffected but function is gone.
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Last month the Belgian financial newspaper De Tijd started trying the Dutch-developed iLiad e-reader, a portable device which boasts “digital ink” that allows the screen to remain unaffected by full sunlight and offers a writing experience similar to paper.
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Nothing could remain unaffected; every aspect of life was irrevocably altered from the time the Spaniards arrived.
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Nothing could remain unaffected; every aspect of life was irrevocably altered from the time the Spaniards arrived.
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The mordant still had to penetrate the fiber — a good printed fabric, like any good dyed fabric, was colored as evenly on the reverse as on the face — but had to remain unaffected by capillary action.
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- Iraqi relationship would remain unaffected by Iraq's domestic policies.
The Accuser 2005
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