Showing lack of affection or warmth; cold and distant in feeling or manner.
From dis- + affectionate (showing affection). This archaic adjective combines the prefix dis- with the established adjective affectionate.
This obsolete word once provided a precise way to describe emotional coldness, but English speakers eventually preferred 'unaffectionate' or 'cold,' showing how adjective negation patterns shift over centuries.
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