What's the difference between nonplussed and unaffected?

Nonplussed


Definition:

  • () of Nonplus

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He lay on his back with his shoulders on the grass, his colleagues standing around, too nonplussed to yell their praises.
  • (2) A source close to Clegg said: "Nick is pretty nonplussed to find himself as the only leading member of the coalition government prepared to uphold the human rights commitments made to Hong Kong by two leading Conservatives – John Major and Chris Patten.
  • (3) But other restaurant owners in the city seemed a little nonplussed about the so-called sugar tax.
  • (4) And the 45-year-old repeated the trick in May this year, this time lasting 45 minutes alongside a presumably nonplussed Nicolas Anelka in the Shenhua attack against Argentina CN Sports.
  • (5) Spain’s prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, has insisted that any regional vote would be illegal, but locals are nonplussed by the government’s stubborn stance.
  • (6) A sk Becky Hope if she ever feels shocked by what she sees in her work in child protection – the welts on backs, broken limbs, the maggots in cots – and she seems nonplussed.
  • (7) City will feel nonplussed when they review the tape and Pellegrini had to summon all his restraint in the post-match interviews.
  • (8) His grandmother, when she first heard about his arrest, seemed nonplussed by the whole affair.
  • (9) He looks slightly nonplussed when the song is mentioned.
  • (10) But no complaints.” While Mourinho suggested there should have been 20 minutes of stoppage time at the end of the game, Alan Pardew was nonplussed by the six minutes that were added and Mourinho’s ball-boy-related comments.
  • (11) Other countries landed with big bills, though nowhere on the scale of the British cheque, such as Italy and the Netherlands were also nonplussed and demanding explanations from Brussels.
  • (12) Well organised protesters have blocked buses, unfurled banners and distributed flyers to tech commuters who have seemed either nonplussed, embarrassed or downright terrified.
  • (13) Slightly nonplussed when this did not happen, he grabbed his keys and got out, forgetting his mobile phone on the dashboard.
  • (14) Hagle, a veteran observer of Iowa politics, said locals were nonplussed by outsiders’ responses to Ernst.
  • (15) With Joel and Avram Glazer, two of United’s owners, present for the training session that was to follow, Mourinho was nonplussed by the episode and the general disappointing nature of the eight-day tour, which ends after the City match.
  • (16) The Arab spring revolts of 2011 left Washington nonplussed.
  • (17) "Every time the camera cuts to Marcello Lippi looking nonplussed, the phrase 'First as tragedy, then as farce' pops unbidden into my brain," writes Scott W. "Just me?"
  • (18) McGregor was probably somewhat nonplussed by all this.
  • (19) Merkel appeared nonplussed, struggling to reconcile her positions as leader of the Christian Democrats with that of leader of the most important EU country.
  • (20) Howe sounded almost nonplussed after seeing his side run up a record league win, and inflict a record home defeat on a Birmingham side reduced to 10 men after barely five minutes.

Unaffected


Definition:

  • (a.) Not affected or moved; destitute of affection or emotion; uninfluenced.
  • (a.) Free from affectation; plain; simple; natural; real; sincere; genuine; as, unaffected sorrow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) During recovery glucose uptake was reduced and citrate release was unaffected.
  • (2) Cellular radial expansion was apparently unaffected by exposure to electric fields.
  • (3) The half-life was very variable between subjects [2-8 hours], but less variable within subjects and it was unaffected by the formulation.
  • (4) Serum pepsinogen 1, serum gastrin, ABO blood groups, secretor status of ABH blood group substances and behavioral factors were studied in 15 patients with duodenal ulcer and 61 their relatives affected and unaffected to duodenal ulcer.
  • (5) Other DNase I hypersensitive sites located adjacent to the S14 cap site at -65 to -265 base pairs (Hss-1) or upstream at -1.3 kb (Hss-2), -2.1 kb (Hss-3'), -5.3 kb (Hss-4), and -6.2 kb (Hss-5) remained unaffected by changes in S14 gene transcription.
  • (6) These tumors may nonetheless be etiologically related as indicated by the pattern of laboratory abnormalities, especially immunologic, in affected as well as unaffected members.
  • (7) Peptidoglycan synthesis is unaffected by the mutations affecting the core glycosyltransferases.
  • (8) Recovery after EEDQ administration showed that both receptor production rate and degradation rate constants of anterior pituitary D2 and striatal D1 receptors were slowed after chronic estradiol treatment, whereas recovery rates for striatal D2 dopamine receptors were unaffected.
  • (9) The repriming of K-contractures was more affected by changes in [Ca]0 in normal soleus than in normal extensor digitorum longus and this difference was unaffected by dystrophy.
  • (10) Photolysis of the photosystem I particles induces a progressive depletion of phylloquinone, however, photochemistry as assayed at room temperature by the photooxidation of P-700 is unaffected.
  • (11) Adenylate cyclase activation by GTP non-hydrolyzable analogues was greatly decreased in immune, as compared to preimmune, antibody-treated membranes, whereas the enzyme basal activity was unaffected by both types of antibodies.
  • (12) F-wave latency was consistently increased in the affected hands of the patients, compared with results from the unaffected and control hands.
  • (13) Results of these studies indicated that the basic protein band of freshly obtained normal human white matter was unaffected by incubation at 23 degrees C for as long as 18 hours.
  • (14) The translocation of nascent PtdSer to the mitochondria was unaffected by 45-fold dilution of the standard reaction thus indicating that the translocation intermediate was unlikely to be a freely diffusible complex.
  • (15) The rise of the membrane resistance during cooling was unaffected.
  • (16) Pilot studies had shown that the activity of rT3 5'MDH is markedly (greater than or equal to 85%) inhibited in the presence of 2 M NaCl, while the rT3 5'MDL is essentially unaffected, and both low and high Km T4 5'MD are minimally (approximately 20%) inhibited.
  • (17) Here we show that the subsequent survival and reproductive success of subordinate female red deer is depressed more by rearing sons than by rearing daughters, whereas the subsequent fitness of dominant females is unaffected by the sex of their present offspring.
  • (18) The morphological process of spermatogenesis is largely unaffected and motile sperm are produced, but meiocyte aneuploidy is common.
  • (19) The amplitude was 15-70% as large as the tonic component of the K-contracture induced by 40 mM K. Theophylline (10 mM), 0.1 mM papaverine and 1 microM isoprenaline nearly abolished, and 1 mM cAMP partly depressed the tonic contraction of K-contracture, whereas the tonic contraction induced by the test solution was unaffected.
  • (20) Their presence in the serum in unaffected by dialysis.