Deflect vs Undeflected - What's the difference?
deflect | undeflected |
To make (something) deviate from its original path.
To deviate from its original path.
(figuratively) To avoid addressing (questions, criticism, etc.).
(figuratively) To divert (attention, etc.).
* 2013 , Luke Harding and Uki Goni, Argentina urges UK to hand back Falklands and 'end colonialism'' (in ''The Guardian , 3 January 2013)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/02/argentina-britain-hand-back-falklands]
Not deflected.
*{{quote-book, year=1887, author=Various, title=Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887, chapter=, edition=
, passage=By sliding this prism in front of the spectrum I can deflect outward any portion of the spectrum I like, and by a mirror can reflect it through a second lens, forming a patch of light on the screen overlapping the patch of light formed by the undeflected rays. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1920, author=Various, title=Recent Developments in European Thought, chapter=, edition=
, passage=A lump of matter flying in space might enter our solar system with such speed as to be able to pass through and go on its way almost undeflected . }}
As a verb deflect
is to make (something) deviate from its original path.As an adjective undeflected is
not deflected.deflect
English
Verb
(en verb)- The Prime Minister deflected some increasingly pointed questions by claiming he had an appointment.
- Critics suggest that Fernández, an unashamed populist and nationalist, is seeking to deflect attention from social disharmony at home.
undeflected
English
Adjective
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