unaffectionate
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English
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]From un- + affectionate .
Adjective
[edit ]unaffectionate (comparative more unaffectionate, superlative most unaffectionate)
- Not affectionate; dispassionate.
- 2007 April 22, Jennifer Senior, "Tabloid Queen", in New York Times[1] :
- 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.
Derived terms
[edit ]Translations
[edit ]Translations
- French: inattentionné (fr)