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[ adjective ] undergoing no change when acted upon
Examples "entirely unaffected by each other's writings" "fibers remained apparently unaffected by the treatment" Used in print (William S. Haymond, "Is Distance an Original...)And so the authors conclude : `` The conduct of the patient in his every-day life and in his work , even more_than the foregoing facts [ mentioned above under 1 ] , leave positively no room for doubt that the sense_of_touch , in the ordinary sense of the word , was unaffected ; or , to put the same thing in physiological terms , that the performance capacity of the tactual apparatus , from the periphery up to the tactual centers in the brain , - that_is , from one end to the other - was unimpaired '' . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] (followed by `to' or `by') unaware of or indifferent to
Synonyms Examples "insensible to the suffering around him" Used in print (Vina Delmar, The Big Family....)Not a man on the brig , loyal or villainous , could be unaffected by the sight of seven men involved in the crime of mutiny . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] free of artificiality; sincere and genuine
Synonyms Examples "an unaffected grace" Related terms affected lifelike unstilted unselfconscious unmannered unstudied affectedness |
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