Definitions for: Affected


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



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

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

Antonyms: unaffected

See Also: deliberate, moved(p), studied

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