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unaffectionate
adjective
uk /ˌʌn.əˈfek.ʃən.ət/ us /ˌʌn.əˈfek.ʃən.ət/
not showing feelings of liking or loving someone:
My mother was a harsh and unaffectionate woman.
She was raised by a distant, unaffectionate father who refused to let his daughter play with other girls in the neighbourhood.
Related word
affectionate
Harold was an austere and unaffectionate father to the boys.
Having critical and unaffectionate parents can do enormous damage to a child's emotional life.
She was keen to escape to London and get away from her unaffectionate and disapproving parents.
Autistic children have unusual emotional lives, but they are not unaffectionate.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Not showing or feeling emotions
anodyne
anti-sentimental
belie
bite
bite your lipidiom
frozenly
glaze
hard-bitten
hardened
icily
phlegmatically
poker face
reserved
reservedly
sphinx-like
unmoved
unprocessed
unresponsive
unresponsively
unresponsiveness
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