UNAFFECTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unaffected mean? 

• UNAFFECTED (adjective)
  The adjective UNAFFECTED has 4 senses:

1. undergoing no change when acted upon

2. unaware of or indifferent to

3. emotionally unmoved

4. free of artificiality; sincere and genuine

  Familiarity information: UNAFFECTED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNAFFECTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Undergoing no change when acted upon

Context example:

fibers remained apparently unaffected by the treatment

Similar:

immune ((usually followed by 'to') not affected by a given influence)

superior ((often followed by 'to') above being affected or influenced by)

unimpressed (not moved to serious regard)

uninfluenced; unswayed; untouched (not influenced or affected)

Also:

unaffected; unmoved; untouched (emotionally unmoved)

Antonym:

affected (acted upon; influenced)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Unaware of or indifferent to

Synonyms:

insensible; unaffected

Context example:

insensible to the suffering around him

Similar:

insensitive (deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Emotionally unmoved

Synonyms:

unaffected; unmoved; untouched

Context example:

always appeared completely unmoved and imperturbable

Also:

unaffected (undergoing no change when acted upon)

unemotional (unsusceptible to or destitute of or showing no emotion)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Free of artificiality; sincere and genuine

Context example:

an unaffected grace

Similar:

lifelike; natural (free from artificiality)

unmannered (without artificiality; natural)

unselfconscious (not self-conscious)

unstilted (flowing naturally and continuously)

Also:

uncontrived; unstudied (not by design or artifice; unforced and impromptu)

Attribute:

affectedness (the quality of being false or artificial (as to impress others))

Antonym:

affected (speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression)

Derivation:

unaffectedness (not affected; a personal manner that is not consciously constrained)

 Context examples 

Each mode of inheritance results in a characteristic pattern of affected and unaffected family members.

(Inheritance Mode, NCI Dictionary)

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

But across the planet, NASA’s Curiosity rover, which has been studying Martian soil at Gale Crater, is expected to remain largely unaffected by the dust.

(Martian Dust Storm Grows Global: Curiosity Captures Photos of Thickening Haze, NASA)

In a few moments Catherine, with unaffected pleasure, assured her that she need not be longer uneasy, as the gentlemen had just left the pump-room.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The Miss Dashwoods were young, pretty, and unaffected.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Vaccination with Bcl-Xs adenovirus vaccine induces apoptosis in Bcl-2 and Bcl-XL positive cancer cells, resulting in decreased tumor growth while leaving normal cells unaffected.

(Bcl-Xs Adenovirus Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

The dark mobile face of the artist shone with pleasure at the unaffected delight of the two young Englishmen.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My face expressed a wonder so unaffected that he saw the needlessness of further questions.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Good-humoured, unaffected girls will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She has the most agreeable of faces,—not absolutely beautiful, but extraordinarily pleasant,—and is one of the most genial, unaffected, frank, engaging creatures I have ever seen.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)