Affected

English

Adjective

Affected (comparative more Affected, superlative most Affected)

1. influenced or changed by something
2. simulated in order to impress
3. emotionally moved; touched.
4. acted upon
5. moved, stirred, touched
6. being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion - "too moved to speak"
7. unnatural; artificial; pretended; speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression

Noun

Affected (plural Affecteds)

1. Someone affected, as by a disease.

Verb

Simple past tense and past participle of affect.

1. impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch, have an effect upon
2. act physically on; have an effect upon
3. involve, regard, connect closely
4. feign, sham, pretend, dissemble, make believe with the intent to deceive
5. impress, move, strike, have an emotional or cognitive impact upon

Adverbs for Affected

conceitedly; foppishly; pretentiously; sentimentally; stiltedly; mincingly; simperingly; stagily; abominably; absurdly; ridiculously; ludicrously; disgustingly; pathetically.

Thesaurus

afflicted; agonized; apocryphal; artificial; assumed; attacked; awkward; bastard; bedizened; big-sounding; bogus; brummagem; canting; chichi; colorable; colored; concerned; contrived; convoluted; counterfeit; counterfeited; declamatory; devoured by; diseased; distorted; distressed; dressed up; dummy; elaborate; elaborated; elevated; embellished; embroidered; ersatz; euphuistic; factitious; fake; faked; false; falsified; feigned; fictitious; fictive; flamboyant; flaming; flashy; flaunting; fulsome; garbled; garish; gaudy; goody; goody-goody; grandiloquent; grandiose; grandisonant; gripped; high-flowing; high-flown; high-flying; high-sounding; highfalutin; histrionic; holier-than-thou; hollow; hurt; hyperelegant; hypocritical; illegitimate; imbued with; imitation; implicated; impressed; impressed with; influenced; inkhorn; insincere; involved; junky; la-di-da; labyrinthine; lexiphanic; lofty; lurid; magniloquent; make-believe; man-made; maniere; mannered; mealymouthed; meretricious; mincing; mock; moved; obsessed; obsessed by; orotund; ostentatious; overacted; overdone; overelaborate; overelegant; overinvolved; overnice; overrefined; overwrought; pedantic; penetrated with; perverted; pharisaic; phony; pietistic; pinchbeck; pious; pompous; precieuse; precieux; precious; pretended; pretentious; pseudo; put-on; quasi; queer; racked; rhetorical; sanctified; sanctimonious; seized; seized with; self-conscious; self-righteous; self-styled; sensational; sensationalistic; sententious; sham; shoddy; showy; simulated; sniveling; so-called; soi-disant; sonorous; specious; spurious; stagy; stiff; stilted; stirred; stricken; struck; studied; supposititious; swayed; synthetic; tall; theatrical; tin; tinsel; titivated; torn; tortuous; tortured; touched; troubled; twisted; unauthentic; unctuous; ungenuine; unnatural; unreal; upset; warped; wracked

See also

• affectation
• effected