Definition of affected
- past tense and past participle of affect 3
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Definition of affected
1 a
: having or showing an attitude or mode of behavior that is not natural or genuinely felt : given to or marked by affectation
- spoke in an affected manner
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affectedly
adverb
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affectedness
nounExamples of affected in a Sentence
- Leinart laughs with his friends about the parallels with his favorite TV show, but he's sensitive about the perception that he's an affected socialite. —Michael Silver, Sports Illustrated, 23 July 2007
- … he accused the literary establishment of eschewing good clean writing and advancing affected, artsy prose instead. —Judith Shulevitz, New York Times Book Review, 9 Sept. 2001
- Without this fraught boundary between old money and new, between inherited and affected tastes, some of our greatest writers would have had to find something else to write about. —E. B. Harper, Civilization, June/July 2000
- With a workmanlike thoroughness, they alter their diction and mannerisms for each new role—for example, Kidman drops her voice at least half an octave and adopts a suitably tailored upper-class accent to portray an affected starlet who carries a teddy bear to surreptitious trysts. —Celia Wren, Commonweal, 26 Feb. 1999
affected laughter at the boss's jokes
with her pinkie extended, the four-year-old held her tiny teacup in that affected manner that some women have
Origin and Etymology of affected
from past participle of 2affect
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First Known Use: circa 1553
in the meaning defined at sense 2
See Words from the same yearaffected Synonyms
Synonyms
artificial, assumed, bogus, contrived, factitious, fake, false, feigned, forced, mechanical, mock, phony (also phoney), plastic, pretended, pseudo, put-on, sham, simulated, strained, unnatural;
Antonyms
artless, genuine, natural, spontaneous, unaffected, uncontrived, unfeigned, unforced;
Near Antonyms
authentic, bona fide, real, realistic, right, true;
honest, ingenuous, sincere, unpretending;
easy, effortless, smooth;
extemporaneous, impromptu, impulsive, instinctive, unconscious, unprompted, unrehearsed, unstudied;
Related Words
automatic, canned, concocted, fabricated, hokey, labored, manufactured, pat, unauthentic, unreal, unrealistic;
double-dealing, empty, facile, hollow, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, mealy, mealymouthed, two-faced, unctuous;
exaggerated, histrionic, melodramatic, overacted, overdone, theatrical (also theatric);
cute, cutesy, genteel, goody-goody, mincing, overrefined, simpering;
conventional, formal, impersonal, inflexible, rigid, stiff, stylized, wooden;
artful, calculated, conscious, cultivated, deliberate, premeditated, studied;
AFFECTED Defined for Kids
Definition of affected for Students
: not natural or genuine
- affected manners
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affectedly
adverb- laughing affectedly
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