What does Affected mean?

Definitions for Affected
əˈfɛk tɪdaf·fect·ed

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. affectedadjective

    acted upon; influenced

  2. affected, unnaturaladjective

    speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression

  3. moved(p), affected, stirred, touchedadjective

    being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion

    "too moved to speak"; "very touched by the stranger's kindness"

Wiktionary

  1. affectednoun

    Someone affected, as by a disease.

  2. affectedadjective

    influenced or changed by something

    The affected compass was impossible to use, so we got lost.

  3. affectedadjective

    simulated in order to impress

    He spoke with an affected English accent.

  4. affectedadjective

    Emotionally moved; touched.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Affectedparticipial adj.

    Etymology: from affect.

    No marvel then if he were ill affected;
    ’Tis they have put him on the old man’s death,
    To have th’ expence and waste of his revenues. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

    He was assured, that the model they seemed affected to in their directory, was not like to any of their foreign reformed churches now in the world. Edward Hyde.

    These antick, lisping, affected phantasies, these new tuners of accents. William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet.

ChatGPT

  1. affected

    Affected refers to being influenced or touched by an external factor; changed or impacted in a certain way. It can also refer to behavior, speech, or writing that is artificial and designed to impress.

  2. affected

    Affected refers to being influenced or impacted by something. It can also mean displaying a behavior or attitude that is not natural or genuine, usually to impress others. In the context of emotions or health, it suggests being in a state of being altered or changed.

  3. affected

    Affected refers to a condition or state being influenced or changed due to an action, a situation, or an event. It can also refer to showing artificial or pretentious behavior, not natural or genuine.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Affected

    of Affect

  2. Affected

    regarded with affection; beloved

  3. Affected

    inclined; disposed; attached

  4. Affected

    given to false show; assuming or pretending to possess what is not natural or real

  5. Affected

    assumed artificially; not natural

  6. Affected

    made up of terms involving different powers of the unknown quantity; adfected; as, an affected equation

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. affected

    An algebraic term for an equation in which the unknown quantity rises to two or more several powers.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Affected' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1905

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Affected' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2906

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Affected in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Affected in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of Affected in a Sentence

  1. Asdrubal Oliveros:

    If you do not find a place for that crude quickly, the room for maneuver will shrink and imports will be affected.

  2. Hafiz Abdullah:

    Development has been so fast in Qatar, we wanted to look at how things changed, how Qatar was affected by slavery and how slaves were integrated into society.

  3. Ethan Coffel:

    The authors show that the effect of warming on home runs is less for indoor stadiums and night games, making a somewhat controlled experiment, there may have been other changes to gameplay or equipment which could have also affected trends in home runs, but one might not expect those things to differ between indoor and outdoor stadiums or night versus day games.

  4. Daryl Herzmann:

    Yes, these delays affected warnings for the Madison County tornado( es), i don't know though if there is a case of somebody not taking action because they did not get a delayed warning.

  5. Paul Kennedy:

    In the course of searching for our Marines, we are able to deliver supplies to the towns that are in the area that has been affected … and then they are returning back to Kathmandu loaded with . . . aid.

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