unaffectionate
adjEtymology From un- + affectionate.
1
Not affectionate; dispassionate.
- 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.2007 April 22, Jennifer Senior, “Tabloid Queen”, in New York Times:
- Derived terms
- unaffectionately