Affected

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Acted upon, influenced, or changed.
  • adj. Emotionally stirred or moved.
  • adj. Infected or attacked, as by disease.
  • adj. Assumed or simulated to impress others: an affected accent.
  • adj. Speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression.
  • adj. Disposed or inclined.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. influenced or changed by something
  • adj. simulated in order to impress
  • adj. Emotionally moved; touched.
  • adj. adfected
  • n. Someone affected, as by a disease.
  • v. Simple past tense and past participle of affect.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • past-participle. Regarded with affection; beloved.
  • past-participle. Inclined; disposed; attached.
  • past-participle. Given to false show; assuming or pretending to possess what is not natural or real.
  • past-participle. Assumed artificially; not natural.
  • past-participle. Made up of terms involving different powers of the unknown quantity; adfected.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Beloved: as, “his affected Hercules,”
  • Having an affection, disposition, or inclination of any kind; inclined or disposed: as, well affected to government or toward a project.
  • Assumed artificially; not natural: as, affected airs.
  • Given to affectation; assuming or pretending to possess characteristics which are not natural or real: as, an affected lady.
  • Synonyms Artificial, feigned, insincere. Pretentious, self-conscious.
  • Acted upon; influenced; particularly, influenced injuriously; impaired; attacked, as by climate or disease.
  • In algebra, same as adfected.
  • In the Roman Catholic Church, said of a benefice the collation of which is reserved to persons possessed of certain qualifications; specifically, when the pope, by some disposition of the benefice, prevents the regular collation and tacitly signifies his intention of himself providing for the benefice when it shall become vacant.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion
  • adj. speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression
  • adj. acted upon; influenced
  • Equivalent
    sick    stilted    agonistic    mannered    strained    constrained    hokey    plummy    contrived    artificial   
    Cross Reference
    pretended    affectation    effected   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    beloved    inclined    disposed    attached    adfected   
    Verb Stem
    affect   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    collected    connected    corrected    defected    deflected    dejected    detected    directed    disaffected    disconnected