affected

Influenced or changed by something.

Adjective

  1. Influenced or changed by something.
    • The affected products had to be recalled.
  2. Simulated in order to impress.
    • He spoke with an affected English accent.
    • The affected articulation of his opinions made it challenging to discern his true stance.
    • He drove over last Saturday with this English babe that’s in this new picture he’s writing. She was pretty affected, but very good-looking. - 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, chapter 26, in The Catcher in the...

    Synonyms: artificial insincere pretentious mannered stagy stilted affected effete fey recherché hoity-toity overrefined pansified precious smug theatrical Woosterian

  3. Emotionally moved; touched.
    • Jones […] was easily prevailed on to satisfy Mr Dowling's curiosity, by relating the history of his birth and education, which he did, like Othello. […] Mr Dowling was indeed very greatly affected with this relation;...
  4. adfected.
    • an affected equation
  5. Resulting from a mostly negative physical effect or transformation.

Forms

more affected most affected

Related

affectation

Derived

affected equation affectedly affectedness gender-affected ill-affected inaffected misaffected nonaffected transmisogyny-affected unaffected

Noun

  1. Someone affected, as by a disease.
    • Affecteds felt that they get conflicting orders from superiors more frequently than did nonaffecteds […]. Affecteds were more frequently bothered by feelings of a sharp increase in their workload than nonaffecteds […]....

Forms

affecteds

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of affect
    • The thunderstorm affected the compass, and we got lost.

Related

effected