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Seemly vs Unaffected - What's the difference?

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Seemly is a related term of unaffected.


As adjectives the difference between seemly and unaffected

is that seemly is (of behavior) appropriate; suited to the occasion or purpose; becoming while unaffected is not affected or changed.

As an adverb seemly

is appropriately, fittingly.

As a noun unaffected is

someone not , as by a disease.

seemly

English

Adjective

(er)
  • (of behavior) Appropriate; suited to the occasion or purpose; becoming.
  • His behavior was seemly , as befits a gentleman.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I am a woman, lacking wit / To make a seemly answer to such persons.
  • * Hooker
  • Suspense of judgment and exercise of charity were safer and seemlier for Christian men than the hot pursuit of these controversies.

    Synonyms

    * apposite

    Antonyms

    * unseemly

    Derived terms

    * * * seemliness

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Appropriately, fittingly.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
  • The great earthes wombe they open to the sky, / And with sad Cypresse seemely it embraue [...].

    unaffected

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not affected or changed.
  • Since I work from home, I was unaffected by the office move.
  • Lacking pretense or affectation; natural.
  • * 1812 , , Pride and Prejudice , Chapter 3:
  • Mr. Bingley was good-looking and gentlemanlike; he had a pleasant countenance, and easy, unaffected manners.

    Derived terms

    * unaffectedly * unaffectedness

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone not , as by a disease.
  • Synonyms

    * nonaffected (less common)