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/əfˈɛktəd/ /əfˈɛktɪd/ Listen

verb

Affected past part., adj.

Regarded with affection; beloved. (Obs.) "His affected Hercules."

Inclined; disposed; attached. "How stand you affected to his wish?"

Given to false show; assuming or pretending to possess what is not natural or real. "He is... too spruce, too affected, too odd."

Assumed artificially; not natural. "Affected coldness and indifference."

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

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Affected" Quotes from Famous Books

... figures of rhetoric had been disused; that, upon his return to England, he had been lavish in his caresses to Mr Serle, invited him to his house, and pressed him to make it his own: that he had overwhelmed him with general professions, and affected to express the warmest regard for him, in company of their common acquaintance; so that every body believed his gratitude was liberal as his fortune; and some went so far as to ...

— The Expedition of Humphry Clinker • Tobias Smollett

... produced by the most opposite causes. The serfs may rise in a body at the call of the government, and their masters, affected by a noble love of their sovereign and country, may set them the example and take the command of them; and, similarly, a fanatical people may arm under the appeal of its priests; or a people enthusiastic in its political opinions, or animated ...

— The Art of War • Baron Henri de Jomini

... was an unwedded damsel of forty summers, who, with the aid of art, was making desperate but ineffectual efforts to detain the youth which was slipping from her. She pinched her waist, dyed her hair, powdered her face, and affected juvenile dress of the white frock and blue sash kind. In the distance she looked a girlish twenty; close at hand various artifices aided her to pass for thirty; and it was only in the solitude of her own room that her real age was apparent. Never did woman wage a more resolute fight with Time ...

— The Silent House • Fergus Hume

... is already marked in public opinion as a coming man,—a future minister of the highest grade. He has youth and good looks; his moral character is without a blemish: yet his manners are so free from affected austerity, so frank, so genial. Any woman might be pleased with his companionship; and you, with your intellect, your culture,—you, so born for high station,—you of all women might be proud to partake the anxieties of his career and the ...

— Kenelm Chillingly, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... destruction of coral reefs threatens marine habitats; recent droughts affected marginal agriculture; wildlife threatened by illegal hunting and trade, especially ...

— The 2005 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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