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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unaffected
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
largely
▪ Close as they are to being sold, electricity and water will be largely unaffected by this week's change.
▪ Deplorable as our child care is, those who make the laws are largely unaffected.
▪ Significantly, in certain cultural enclaves women remain largely unaffected by the work-family conflict.
relatively
▪ But exactly how viral protein synthesis is selectively inhibited, leaving cellular protein synthesis relatively unaffected, is still not clear.
▪ Ascaridia is not a highly pathogenic worm, and any effects are seen in young birds, adults appearing relatively unaffected.
▪ It has been relatively unaffected, in terms of output, by the changing fashions and styles outlined above.
▪ But the realities of medical power were relatively unaffected by putting community physicians and nurses on the management teams.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He sounds completely unaffected in interviews.
▪ The Queen's role remains the same, apparently unaffected by the changes and upheavals of recent years.
▪ The rest of the world was in recession, but the Soviet economy remained unaffected.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Ace repressed a shudder, while Howard looked on unaffected, having seen the stones when they first arrived at the university.
▪ After the 1989 federal minimum-wage increase, they found that Texas fast food restaurants increased employment but prices were unaffected.
▪ Another liked him because he was unaffected but decided he needed more charisma.
▪ Deplorable as our child care is, those who make the laws are largely unaffected.
▪ So during windy days you do better working burrows with entrances unaffected by wind.
▪ The real estate market is not unaffected but it is not seriously hampered.
▪ They are unaffected by ultra-violet light and do not become brittle or discolour over time.
▪ Treaties bind consenting parties only, and strangers to any treaty are legally unaffected by it.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unaffected

Unaffected \Un`af*fect"ed\, a.

  1. Not affected or moved; destitute of affection or emotion; uninfluenced.

    A poor, cold, unspirited, unmannered, Unhonest, unaffected, undone fool.
    --J. Fletcher.

  2. Free from affectation; plain; simple; natural; real; sincere; genuine; as, unaffected sorrow. [1913 Webster] -- Un`af*fect"ed*ly, adv. -- Un`af*fect"ed*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unaffected

1580s, "not influenced, untouched in mind or feeling," from un- (1) "not" + past participle of affect (v.). Meaning "not adopted or assumed, genuine" is recorded from 1590s; that of "not acted upon or altered (by something)" is first attested 1830. Related: Unaffectedly; unaffectedness.

Wiktionary
unaffected

a. 1 Not affected or changed. 2 Lacking pretense or affectation; natural. n. Someone not affect#Verb, as by a disease.

WordNet
unaffected
  1. adj. undergoing no change when acted upon; "entirely unaffected by each other's writings"; "fibers remained apparently unaffected by the treatment" [ant: affected]

  2. (followed by `to' or `by') unaware of or indifferent to; "insensible to the suffering around him" [syn: insensible(p), unaffected(p)]

  3. free of artificiality; sincere and genuine; "an unaffected grace" [ant: affected]

  4. not touched emotionally; "was left untouched by the music" [syn: unaffected(p), untouched(p)]

Usage examples of "unaffected".

Log-wood ink marks are mostly reddened by oxalic acid, and alizarin marks become bluish, but aniline inks are unaffected.

Blanquais-les-Galets, as Bernard learned the name of this unfashionable resort to be, was twenty miles from a railway, and the place wore an expression of unaffected rusticity.

As the boat now touched the bank, Madame de Montaigne accosted the musicians, thanked them with a sweet and unaffected earnestness for the compliment so delicately offered, and invited them ashore.

He wills to move a palsied limb: the soul is unaffected by the paralysis, but the muscles refuse to obey his volition: the distinction between the person willing and the instrument to be wielded is unavoidable.

The hope was that at least one of the two postoperative hemispheres would be unaffected by subsequent seizures.

Then the pressoreceptor reflex, a sympathetic reflex triggered by diminished arterial pressure, cut in, and in89 90LarrV Niven and Steven Barnes creased the efficacy of the unaffected heart muscle, giving Stonecypher respite from the immediate agony.

And, unaffected, their metabolisms insulated by pre-injective antidotal hormones, the two field reps of Lies Incorporated dogtrotted toward the windowless structure, and, as they trotted, brought out small, long-range laser pistols with telescopic sights.

Yet the boundary appeared to mean nothing to birds and animals, or to the native people who like the birds and animals were observed passing in and out of the Field at will, with the bioelectric activities of their bodies presumably unaffected by it.

The divinest singer may leave one unaffected by the tone of her speech.

There was in it something provocative and exciting that was like a sound, and Domini marvelled that the four men who crouched over it and drank it in perpetually could be unaffected by its influence when she, who was at some distance from it, felt dawning on her desires of movement, of action, almost a physical necessity to get up and do something extraordinary, absurd or passionate, such as she had never done or dreamed of till this moment.

Numerous experiments by different observers have demonstrated that it swiftly destroys the functions of the motor nerves of the body, leaving the sensory nerves unaffected to any extent.

I walked round looking at each horse but in truth they all appeared healthy and unaffected, even Upper Gumtree and Flokati who would have been excused seeming thin and fatigued after their exertions.

Log-wood ink marks are mostly reddened by oxalic acid, and alizarin marks become bluish, but aniline inks are unaffected.

It was made up of a series of parallel zones that ran like ribbons latitudinally across the continent -completely unaffected by the Ural mountains - from the plains of Hungary to Mongolia.

The only one who seemed unaffected was Mamak, who chatted away as he walked, telling them old legends and stories of the mountains, many of which were variations of ones they knew from the mainland.