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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.

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