Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not affable; reserved.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not affable; reserved in social intercourse.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Not affable; reserved in social intercourse.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

in- +‎ affable

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word inaffable.

Examples

  • I admit that even among amateurs this is rather small talk, but it brings me to this point: in the passage of water down a ravine of its own making, this line of Nature astir may repeat itself again and again but is commonly too inaffable, abrupt, angular, to suggest the ogee.

    The Amateur Garden George Washington Cable 1884

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.