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affectless

/af-ekt-lis/US // ˈæf ɛkt lɪs //UK // (əˈfɛktlɪs) //

无影响,无影响的,不受影响,毫无影响

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : lacking feeling or emotion; indifferent to the suffering of others: an affectless, futuristic drama in which the human characters are virtually robots.

Examples

  • And there you are, years later, a jaded, affectless, neurotic, disenchanted, sad person.

  • At such times she showed an affectless, impulsive excitement.

  • The condition, too, was not so completely affectless as one expects a deep stupor to be.

  • On another occasion, when asked where she was, she said: "I am at the ball—I am going to Heaven—don't shoot me" (affectless).

  • The cases chosen showed persistent, quite affectless, yet very impulsive attempts at self-injury.