'affected' definitions:
Definition of 'affected'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Acted upon; influenced [ant: unaffected]
adjective
Speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression [syn: affected, unnatural] [ant: unaffected]
adjective
Being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion; "too moved to speak"; "very touched by the stranger's kindness" [syn: moved(p), affected, stirred, touched] [ant: unaffected, unmoved(p), untouched]
Synonyms of 'affected'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- afflicted,
- agonized,
- apocryphal,
- artificial,
- assumed,
- attacked,
- awkward,
- bastard,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- bogus,
- brummagem,
- canting,
- chichi,
- colorable,
- colored,
- concerned,
- contrived,
- convoluted,
- counterfeit,
- counterfeited,
- declamatory,
- devoured by,
- diseased,
- distorted,
- distressed,
- dressed up,
- dummy,
- elaborate,
- elaborated,
- elevated,
- embellished,
- embroidered,
- ersatz,
- euphuistic,
- factitious,
- fake,
- faked,
- false,
- falsified,
- feigned,
- fictitious,
- fictive,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- fulsome,
- garbled,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- Gongoresque,
- Gongoristic,
- goody,
- goody-goody,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- gripped,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- histrionic,
- holier-than-thou,
- hollow,
- hurt,
- hyperelegant,
- hypocritical,
- illegitimate,
- imbued with,
- imitation,
- implicated,
- impressed,
- impressed with,
- influenced,
- inkhorn,
- insincere,
- involved,
- Johnsonian,
- junky,
- la-di-da,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- make-believe,
- man-made,
- maniere,
- mannered,
- Marinistic,
- mealymouthed,
- meretricious,
- mincing,
- mock,
- moved,
- obsessed,
- obsessed by,
- orotund,
- ostentatious,
- overacted,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overelegant,
- overinvolved,
- overnice,
- overrefined,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- penetrated with,
- perverted,
- pharisaic,
- phony,
- pietistic,
- pinchbeck,
- pious,
- pompous,
- precieuse,
- precieux,
- precious,
- pretended,
- pretentious,
- pseudo,
- put-on,
- quasi,
- queer,
- racked,
- rhetorical,
- sanctified,
- sanctimonious,
- seized,
- seized with,
- self-conscious,
- self-righteous,
- self-styled,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- sham,
- shoddy,
- showy,
- simulated,
- sniveling,
- so-called,
- soi-disant,
- sonorous,
- specious,
- spurious,
- stagy,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- stirred,
- stricken,
- struck,
- studied,
- supposititious,
- swayed,
- synthetic,
- tall,
- Tartuffian,
- Tartuffish,
- theatrical,
- tin,
- tinsel,
- titivated,
- torn,
- tortuous,
- tortured,
- touched,
- troubled,
- twisted,
- unauthentic,
- unctuous,
- ungenuine,
- unnatural,
- unreal,
- upset,
- warped,
- wracked