Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not affable; reserved.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not affable; reserved in social intercourse.
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- adjective Not
affable ; reserved insocial intercourse .
Etymologies
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in- + affable
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Examples
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I admit that even among amateurs this is rather small talk, but it brings me to this point: in the passage of water down a ravine of its own making, this line of Nature astir may repeat itself again and again but is commonly too inaffable, abrupt, angular, to suggest the ogee.
The Amateur Garden George Washington Cable 1884
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