unaffectionate

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ affectionate.

Adjective

unaffectionate (comparative more unaffectionate, superlative most unaffectionate)

1. 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

• unaffectionately

Translations

Translations

• French: inattentionné (fr)