affected

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈfɛktɪd/

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• Hyphenation: af‧fect‧ed

Adjective

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.

Derived terms

• affected equation
• affectedly
• affectedness
• ill-affected
• inaffected
• misaffected
• nonaffected

 

Translations

influenced or changed by something

• Danish: påvirket
• Dutch: beïnvloed (nl), getroffen (nl)
• German: betroffen (de), beeinflusst (de), beeinträchtigt (de), tangiert (de), angegriffen (de), affiziert (de), gesinnt (de)
• Hungarian: érintett (hu), befolyásolt (hu)
• Italian: impattato (it)
• Polish: dotknięty
• Turkish: etkilenen, etkilenmiş

simulated in order to impress

• Czech: afektovaný
• Danish: krukket, affekteret
• Esperanto: afekta, afektita
• Finnish: teennäinen (fi), teeskennelty (fi)
• German: affektiert (de), simuliert (de), vorgegeben (de), vorgespielt (de), vorgespiegelt (de), erheuchelt (de)
• Hungarian: színlelt (hu), tettetett (hu), megjátszott
• Italian: lezioso (it) m, affettato (it) m
• Polish: afektowany (pl)

emotionally moved, touched

• Danish: berørt, rørt
• Dutch: geëmotioneerd (nl), ontdaan (nl), geraakt (nl)
• Esperanto: afekciita
• Finnish: liikuttunut
• German: betroffen (de), beeindruckt (de), angesprochen (de), getroffen (de), leidenschaftlich (de), bewegt (de)
• Hungarian: meghatott (hu), elérzékenyült
• Italian: colpito (it) m
• Polish: dotknięty, poruszony (pl)

adfected — see adfected

resulting from a mostly negative physical effect

• Dutch: getroffen (nl)
• French: affecté (fr)
• German: angegriffen (de), in Mitleidenschaft gezogen, beschwert (de)
• Italian: colpito (it), afflitto (it) m
• Portuguese: afetado (pt)
• Spanish: afectado (es), aquejado (es)

behaving or speaking in an artificial or insincere manner

• Bulgarian: престорен (bg) (prestoren), неестествен (bg) (neestestven)
• Finnish: teennäinen (fi)
• German: affektiert (de), gekünstelt (de), vorgespielt (de), vorgespiegelt (de), geziert (de), blasiert (de), manieriert (de)
• Hungarian: mesterkélt (hu), modoros (hu), affektáló (hu)
• Italian: manierato (it) m, affettato (it) m, lezioso (it) m
• Latin: vultuōsus
• Polish: egzaltowany, pretensjonalny (pl)
• Russian: притво́рный (ru) m (pritvórnyj), показно́й (ru) m (pokaznój), неесте́ственный (ru) m (nejestéstvennyj), нарочи́тый (ru) m (naročítyj), ло́жный (ru) m (lóžnyj), вы́чурный (ru) m (výčurnyj), мане́рный (ru) m (manérnyj), напускно́й (ru) m (napusknój), неи́скренний (ru) m (neískrennij), наи́гранный (ru) m (naígrannyj), ненатура́льный (ru) m (nenaturálʹnyj), жема́нный (ru) (žemánnyj)

See also

• affectation

Noun

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 […] .

Verb

affected

1. simple past and past participle of affect

   The thunderstorm affected the compass, and we got lost.

See also

• effected