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ALL meanings of affected

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  • adjective affected emotionally moved or touched 3
  • adjective affected If you describe someone's behaviour as affected, you disapprove of the fact that they behave in an unnatural way that is intended to impress other people. 3
  • adjective affected deeply moved, esp by sorrow or grief 3
  • adjective affected changed, esp detrimentally 3
  • adjective affected behaving, speaking, etc, in an artificial or assumed way, esp in order to impress others 3
  • adjective affected feigned 3
  • adjective affected inclined; disposed 3
  • adjective affected assumed for effect; artificial 3
  • adjective affected behaving in an artificial way to impress people; full of affectation 3
  • adjective affected attacked by disease; afflicted 3
  • adjective affected influenced; acted upon 3
  • adjective affected fake, acted 1
  • noun affected Influenced or touched by an external factor. 1
  • noun affected Affect1 and effect, each both noun and verb, share the sense of “influence,” and because of their similarity in pronunciation are sometimes confused in writing. As a verb affect1 means “to act on” or “to move” (His words affected the crowd so deeply that many wept); affect2 means “to pretend” or “to assume” (new students affecting a nonchalance they didn't feel). The verb effect means “to bring about, accomplish”:  Her administration effected radical changes.  The noun effect means “result, consequence”:  the serious effects of the oil spill.  The noun affect1 pronounced with the stress on the first syllable, is a technical term in psychology and psychiatry. Affect2 is not used as a noun. 1
  • adjective affected assumed artificially; unnatural; feigned: affected sophistication; an affected British accent. 1
  • adjective affected assuming or pretending to possess that which is not natural: Her affected wealth and social pedigree are so obviously false that it's embarrassing. 1
  • adjective affected inclined or disposed: well affected toward the speaker's cause. 1
  • adjective affected held in affection; fancied: a novel much affected by our grandparents. 1
  • verb with object affected to give the appearance of; pretend or feign: to affect knowledge of the situation. 1
  • verb with object affected to assume artificially, pretentiously, or for effect: to affect a Southern accent. 1
  • verb with object affected to use, wear, or adopt by preference; choose; prefer: the peculiar costume he affected. 1
  • verb with object affected to assume the character or attitude of: to affect the freethinker. 1
  • verb with object affected (of things) to tend toward habitually or naturally: a substance that affects colloidal form. 1
  • verb with object affected (of animals and plants) to occupy or inhabit; live in or on: Lions affect Africa. Moss affects the northern slopes. 1
  • verb with object affected Archaic. to have affection for; fancy. to aim at; aspire to. 1
  • noun affected Psychology. feeling or emotion. 1
  • noun affected Psychiatry. an expressed or observed emotional response: Restricted, flat, or blunted affect may be a symptom of mental illness, especially schizophrenia. 1
  • noun affected Obsolete. affection; passion; sensation; inclination; inward disposition or feeling. 1
  • verb without object affected Obsolete. to incline, tend, or favor (usually followed by to): He affects to the old ways. 1
  • noun affected Someone affected, as by a disease. 0
  • verb affected simple past tense and past participle of affect. 0
  • adjective affected influenced or changed by something. 0
  • adjective affected simulated in order to impress. 0
  • adjective affected Emotionally moved; touched. 0
  • adjective affected (algebra, archaic) adfected. 0
  • adjective affected Resulting from a mostly negative physical effect or transformation. 0
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