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unaffecting

unaffecting

7.7
Does not make people feel strong emotion
  • adjective
  • /ˌʌnəˈfɛktɪŋ/
translation icon : inocuo
  • The film was completely unaffecting.

Examples

  • Although technically proficient, the performance was strangely unaffecting.

  • The speech was so unaffecting that few people paid attention to it.

  • His writing is competent but ultimately unaffecting, failing to inspire much response in the reader.

  • Her speech was rather unaffecting and dull.

  • The movie was so unaffecting that I barely remembered the plot the next day.

  • Despite the beautiful scenery, the documentary was largely unaffecting and left me indifferent.

  • His speech was unaffecting, failing to inspire or engage the audience.

Synonyms

unmoving
vsunaffecting
5.5

Not causing strong feelings or interest in people

is about not causing strong emotions rather than no emotion at all
unstirring
vsunaffecting
7.2

Not causing strong feelings or interest

is less about dullness and more about lacking strong emotional effect
unarousing
vsunaffecting
5.6

Not causing excitement or interest

is focused on absence of strong emotional response rather than only low excitement

Antonyms

7 3.3

Causing strong feelings, often sadness

1 3.4

Making you feel sympathy or sadness

How Moving

poignant
66 6.8
touching
1 3.4
uninspiring
7 3.5
unaffecting
7.7

Surface Forms

unaffecting positive

Morphology

unaffecting = affecting (transparent) = un + affect + ing

The negative prefix 'un-' straightforwardly reverses the adjectival meaning 'affecting' (evoking emotion), yielding 'not evoking emotion'.

Etymology

Unaffecting starts with un- ('not') and the root affect ('to move or influence'), which you also see in affection ('feeling'). So, unaffecting means 'not moving' and describes something that fails to touch people's feelings.