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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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