affected

• IPA^(key): /əˈfɛktɪd/

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• Hyphenation: af‧fect‧ed

affected (comparative more affected, superlative most affected)

1. Influenced or changed by something.

   The affected products had to be recalled.

3. Simulated in order to impress.

   Synonyms: artificial, insincere, pretentious, mannered, stilted

   He spoke with an affected English accent.

   The affected articulation of his opinions made it challenging to discern his true stance.

   • 1951, J. D. Salinger, chapter 26, in The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC:

     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.

4. Emotionally moved; touched.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

     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.

5. (algebra, archaic) adfected.

   an affected equation

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

• affectation

affected (plural affecteds)

1. Someone affected, as by a disease.
   • 1979, Journal of Behavioral Medicine, page 306:

     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 […] .

affected

1. simple past and past participle of affect

   The thunderstorm affected the compass, and we got lost.

• effected