Word Meanings - UNCONCERNING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Not interesting of affecting; insignificant; not belonging to one. Addison.
Related words: (words related to UNCONCERNING)
- AFFECTATIONIST
One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall. - AFFECTION
Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections - AFFECTIBILITY
The quality or state of being affectible. - AFFECTIVELY
In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally. - INSIGNIFICANT
1. Not significant; void of signification, sense, or import; meaningless; as, insignificant words. 2. Having no weight or effect; answering no purpose; unimportant; valueless; futile. Laws must be insignificant without the sanction of rewards and - INSIGNIFICANTLY
without significance, importance, or effect; to no purpose. "Anger insignificantly fierce." Cowper. - INTERESTED
1. Having the attention engaged; having emotion or passion excited; as, an interested listener. 2. Having an interest; concerned in a cause or in consequences; liable to be affected or prejudiced; as, an interested witness. - AFFECTIONED
1. Disposed. Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10. 2. Affected; conceited. Shak. - AFFECTER
One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after. "Affecters of wit." Abp. Secker. - AFFECTIVE
1. Tending to affect; affecting. Burnet. 2. Pertaining to or exciting emotion; affectional; emotional. Rogers. - AFFECTIONATED
Disposed; inclined. Affectionated to the people. Holinshed. - AFFECTIONATE
1. Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother. 2. Kindly inclined; zealous. Johson. Man, in his love God, and desire to please him, can never be too affectionate. Sprat. 3. Proceeding from affection; indicating - INTERESTINGNESS
The condition or quality of being interesting. A. Smith. - AFFECTEDLY
1. In an affected manner; hypocritically; with more show than reality. 2. Lovingly; with tender care. Shak. - AFFECTEDNESS
Affectation. - AFFECTIBLE
That may be affected. Lay aside the absolute, and, by union with the creaturely, become affectible. Coleridge. - AFFECTIONAL
Of or pertaining to the affections; as, affectional impulses; an affectional nature. - BELONG
attain to, to concern); pref. be- + longen to desire. See Long, v. Note: 1. To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain. 2. To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service. A desert place - AFFECT
+ facere to make: cf. F. affectere, L. affectare, freq. of afficere. 1. To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon. As might affect the earth with cold heat. Milton. The climate affected their health and spirits. Macaulay. 2. To influence - AFFECTATION
1. An attempt to assume or exhibit what is not natural or real; false display; artificial show. "An affectation of contempt." Macaulay. Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the beauty - DISINTERESTING
Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton. - OVERAFFECT
To affect or care for unduly. Milton. - MISAFFECT
To dislike. - UNINTERESTED
1. Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business. 2. Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration. - INAFFECTED
Unaffected. -- In`af*fect"ed*ly, adv. - MISAFFECTED
Ill disposed. - MISAFFECTION
An evil or wrong affection; the state of being ill affected. Bp. Hall. - SELF-INTERESTED
Particularly concerned for one's own interest or happiness.