affected

comparative more affected · superlative most affected

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.

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   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 Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC

   Synonyms: artificial, insincere, pretentious, mannered, stagy, stilted, effete, fey

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; for he had not divested himself of humanity by being an attorney.

   1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC

4. archaicalgebraadfected.

   an affected equation

5. Resulting from a mostly negative physical effect or transformation.

plural affecteds

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 […].

   1979, Journal of Behavioral Medicine, page 306

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of affect

   The thunderstorm affected the compass, and we got lost.