MEANING
Sincerely felt or genuinely present, rather than acted or fabricated.
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Words that belong together
- unfeigned pleasure
- unfeigned distress
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Her unfeigned pleasure made the formal greeting suddenly warm.
The witness’s unfeigned distress did not resolve the uncertainty in his account.
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- Base
- unfeigned
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: Relational, temporal, or authenticity adjective; ordinary comparative and superlative usually not needed. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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