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AFFECTED
affected
(adjective) acted upon; influenced
affected, unnatural
(adjective) speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression
affected, moved(p), stirred, touched
(adjective) being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion; “too moved to speak”; “very touched by the stranger’s kindness”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
affected (comparative more affected, superlative most affected)
Influenced or changed by something.
Simulated in order to impress.
Emotionally moved; touched.
(algebra, archaic) adfected.
Resulting from a mostly negative physical effect or transformation.
artificial, stilted
Noun
affected (plural affecteds)
Someone affected, as by a disease.
Verb
affected
simple past tense and past participle of affect
Source: Wiktionary
Af*fect"ed, p. p. & a.
1. Regarded with affection; beloved. [Obs.] His affected Hercules. Chapman.
2. Inclined; disposed; attached. How stand you affected his wish Shak.
3. Given to false show; assuming or pretending to posses what is not natural or real. He is . . . too spruce, too affected, too odd. Shak.
4. Assumed artificially; not natural. Affected coldness and indifference. Addison.
5. (Alg.)
Definition: Made up of terms involving different powers of the unknown quantity; adfected; as, an affected equation.
AFFECT
Af*fect", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Affected; p. pr. & vb. n. Affecting.] Etym: [L. affectus, p. p. of afficere to affect by active agency; ad + facere to make: cf. F. affectere, L. affectare, freq. of afficere. See Fact.]
1. To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon. As might affect the earth with cold heat. Milton. The climate affected their health and spirits. Macaulay.
2. To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch. A consideration of the rationale of our passions seems to me very necessary for all who would affect them upon solid and pure principles.
3. To love; to regard with affection. [Obs.] As for Queen Katharine, he rather respected than affected, rather honored than loved, her. Fuller.
4. To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually. For he does neither affect company, nor is he fit for Shak. Do not affect the society of your inferiors in rank, nor court that of the great. Hazlitt.
5. To dispose or incline. Men whom they thought best affected to religion and their country's liberty. Milton.
6. To aim at; to aspire; to covet. [Obs.] This proud man affects imperial Dryden.
7. To tend to by affinity or disposition. The drops of every fluid affect a round figure. Newton.
8. To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance. Careless she is with artful care, Affecting to seem unaffected. Congreve. Thou dost affect my manners. Shak.
9. To assign; to appoint. [R.] One of the domestics was affected to his special service. Thackeray.
Syn.
– To influence; operate; act on; concern; move; melt; soften; subdue; overcome; pretend; assume.
Af*fect", n. Etym: [L. affectus.]
Definition: Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition. [Obs.] Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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