affected

Adjective
Synonyms: unnaturalmoved(p)stirredtouched

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (3)

  1. acted upon; influenced
  2. speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impressionSynonyms: unnatural
  3. being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion“too moved to speak”“very touched by the stranger's kindness”Synonyms: moved(p)stirredtouched
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Affect \Af*fect"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Affected; p. pr. & vb. n. Affecting.] [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. [1913 Webster]

As might affect the earth with cold heat.— Milton.[1913 Webster]
The climate affected their health and spirits.— Macaulay.[1913 Webster]

2.To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch. [1913 Webster]

A consideration of the rationale of our passions seems to me very necessary for all who would affect them upon solid and pure principles. [1913 Webster]

3.To love; to regard with affection. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

As for Queen Katharine, he rather respected than affected, rather honored than loved, her.— Fuller.[1913 Webster]

4.To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually. [1913 Webster]

For he does neither affect company, nor is he fit for it, indeed.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
Do not affect the society of your inferiors in rank, nor court that of the great.— Hazlitt.[1913 Webster]

5.To dispose or incline. [1913 Webster]

Men whom they thought best affected to religion and their country's liberty.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

6.To aim at; to aspire; to covet. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

This proud man affects imperial ?way.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]

7.To tend to by affinity or disposition. [1913 Webster]

The drops of every fluid affect a round figure.— Newton.[1913 Webster]

8.To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance. [1913 Webster]

Careless she is with artful care, Affecting to seem unaffected.— Congreve.[1913 Webster]
Thou dost affect my manners.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

9.To assign; to appoint. [R.] [1913 Webster]

One of the domestics was affected to his special service.— Thackeray.[1913 Webster]

Syn: To influence; operate; act on; concern; move; melt; soften; subdue; overcome; pretend; assume. [1913 Webster]

Affected \Af*fect"ed\ ([a^]f*f[e^]kt"[e^]d), p. p. & a.

1.Regarded with affection; beloved. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

His affected Hercules.— Chapman.[1913 Webster]

2.Inclined; disposed; attached. [1913 Webster]

How stand you affected to his wish?— Shak.[1913 Webster]

3.Given to false show; assuming or pretending to possess what is not natural or real. [1913 Webster]

He is . . . too spruce, too affected, too odd.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

4.Assumed artificially; not natural. [1913 Webster]

Affected coldness and indifference.— Addison.[1913 Webster]

5.(Alg.) Made up of terms involving different powers of the unknown quantity; adfected; as, an affected equation. [1913 Webster]

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