Definition of unaffected
1 : not influenced or changed mentally, physically, or chemically
2 : free from affectation : genuine
unaffectedly
adverbunaffectedness
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Examples of unaffected in a Sentence
They shortened the book when they made the movie, but the basic story remained unaffected.
He has a friendly and unaffected manner.
Recent Examples of unaffected from the Web
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What’s the chance that mental abilities and behavioral tendencies were completely unaffected by all these processes?
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English Language Arts test scores were largely unaffected, the study showed.
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Travel and money sent by Cuban Americans will be unaffected.
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Aimee desperately wanted to be fair, unaffected by past emotions, unsullied by the truth.
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This was unaffected by gender, age, education, political ideology, race and news viewing.
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Flintridge Prep and Bellarmine-Jefferson, which play eight-man football, were unaffected.
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Labour’s rating is up from a low of 13 percent in February and was unaffected by Corbyn’s inability to remember the cost of his 5.3-billion-pound ($6.8 billion) flagship childcare policy in a radio interview, according to the poll.
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In some ways, the community seems frozen in time, unaffected by the war raging in the countryside.
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First Known Use of unaffected
circa 1586
UNAFFECTED Defined for English Language Learners
unaffected
playDefinition of unaffected for English Language Learners
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: not influenced or changed mentally, physically, or chemically
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: genuine, sincere, or natural
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