About The Word Affected

Bay Area Crosswords

Learn about the word Affected to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Affected definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.

Affected

Affected Meaning & Definition
Affected Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Affected?

[adj] acted upon; influenced
[adj] speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression

Synonyms | Synonyms for Affected: agonistic | artificial | constrained | contrived | elocutionary | forced | impressed(p) | mannered | plummy | smitten | stage-struck | stilted | strained | stricken | struck | taken | unnatural | wonder-struck

Related Terms | Find terms related to Affected: afflicted | agonized | apocryphal | artificial | assumed | attacked | awkward | bastard | bedizened | big-sounding | bogus | brummagem | canting | chichi | colorable | colored | concerned | contrived | convoluted | counterfeit | counterfeited | declamatory | devoured by | diseased | distorted | distressed | dressed up | dummy | elaborate | elaborated | elevated | embellished | embroidered | ersatz | euphuistic | factitious | fake | faked | false | falsified | feigned | fictitious | fictive | flamboyant | flaming | flashy | flaunting | fulsome | garbled | garish | gaudy | Gongoresque | Gongoristic | goody | goody-goody | grandiloquent | grandiose | grandisonant | gripped | highfalutin | high-flowing | high-flown | high-flying | high-sounding | histrionic | holier-than-thou | hollow | hurt | hyperelegant | hypocritical | illegitimate | imbued with | imitation | implicated | impressed | impressed with | influenced | inkhorn | insincere | involved | Johnsonian | junky | labyrinthine | la-di-da | lexiphanic | lofty | lurid | magniloquent | make-believe | maniere | man-made | mannered | Marinistic | mealymouthed | meretricious | mincing | mock | moved | obsessed | obsessed by | orotund | ostentatious | overacted | overdone | overelaborate | overelegant | overinvolved | overnice | overrefined | overwrought | pedantic | penetrated with | perverted | pharisaic | phony | pietistic | pinchbeck | pious | pompous | precieuse | precieux | precious | pretended | pretentious | pseudo | put-on | quasi | queer | racked | rhetorical | sanctified | sanctimonious | seized | seized with | self-conscious | self-righteous | self-styled | sensational | sensationalistic | sententious | sham | shoddy | showy | simulated | sniveling | so-called | soi-disant | sonorous | specious | spurious | stagy | stiff | stilted | stirred | stricken | struck | studied | supposititious | swayed | synthetic | tall | Tartuffian | Tartuffish | theatrical | tin | tinsel | titivated | torn | tortuous | tortured | touched | troubled | twisted | unauthentic | unctuous | ungenuine | unnatural | unreal | upset | warped | wracked

See Also | deliberate | moved(p) | studied

Affected In Webster's Dictionary

\Af*fect"ed\ ([a^]f*f[e^]kt"[e^]d), p. p. & a. 1. Regarded with affection; beloved. [Obs.] His affected Hercules. --Chapman. 2. Inclined; disposed; attached. How stand you affected to his wish? --Shak. 3. Given to false show; assuming or pretending to possess what is not natural or real. He is . . . too spruce, too affected, too odd. --Shak. 4. Assumed artificially; not natural. Affected coldness and indifference. --Addison. 5. (Alg.) Made up of terms involving different powers of the unknown quantity; adfected; as, an affected equation.

More Crossword Puzzle Words

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

Cross Word Of The Day

  • Expectancy ‐ something expected (as on the basis of a norm); "each of them…
  • Pipefish ‐ fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony…
  • Republic of south africa ‐ a republic at the southernmost part of Africa; achieved independence…
  • Free-enterprise(a) ‐ subscribing to capitalistic…
  • Hackwork ‐ professional work done according…
  • Salamandra atra ‐ ovoviviparous amphibian…
  • Vena maxillaris ‐ posterior continuation of the pterygoid plexus; joins the superficial…
  • Jinrikisha ‐ a small two-wheeled cart for one passenger; pulled by…
  • Constitutionally ‐ according to the constitution; "this was constitutionally ruled…
  • William henry hudson ‐ English naturalist (born in Argentina)…