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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

AFFECT'ED, pp.
1. Impressed; moved, or touched, either in person or in interest; having suffered some change by external force, loss, danger, and the like; as, we are more or less affected by the failure of the bank.
2. Touched in the feelings; having the feelings excited; as, affected with cold or heat.
3. Having the passions moved; as, affected with sorrow or joy.
4. a. Inclined, or disposed; followed by to; as, well affected to government.
5. a. Given to false show; assuming, or pretending to possess what is not natural or real; as, an affected lady.
6. a. Assumed artificially; not natural; as, affected airs.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: acted upon; influenced [ant: unaffected]
2: speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression [syn: affected, unnatural] [ant: unaffected]
3: being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion; "too moved to speak"; "very touched by the stranger's kindness" [syn: moved, affected, stirred, touched] [ant: unaffected, unmoved, untouched]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1587 1. inclined, disposed <was well affected toward her> 2. a. given to or marked by affectation <spoke in an affected manner> b. assumed artificially or falsely ; pretended <an affected interest in art> • affectedly adverb • affectedness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 in senses of AFFECT(1), AFFECT(2). 2 artificially assumed or displayed; pretended (an affected air of innocence). 3 (of a person) full of affectation; artificial. 4 (prec. by adv.; often foll. by towards) disposed, inclined. Derivatives: affectedly adv.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Affect Af*fect" ([a^]f*f[e^]kt"), 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. 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. --Burke. 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 it, indeed. --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 ?way. --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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Affected Af*fect"ed ([a^]f*f[e^]kt"[e^]d), p. p. & a. 1. Regarded with affection; beloved. [Obs.] His affected Hercules. --Chapman. 2. Inclined; disposed; attached. How stand you affected to his wish? --Shak. 3. Given to false show; assuming or pretending to possess 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.) Made up of terms involving different powers of the unknown quantity; adfected; as, an affected equation.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe someone's behaviour as affected, you disapprove of the fact that they behave in an unnatural way that is intended to impress other people. She had an affected air and a disdainful look. = mannered ? natural ADJ: usu ADJ n [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Assumed, feigned, unnatural, artificial, insincere, canting. 2. Assuming, pretending, pretentious, conceited, vain, coxcomical, foppish.

Moby Thesaurus

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