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- affected laughter at the boss's jokes
- an affected southern accent
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- 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)
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- with her pinkie extended, the four-year-old held her tiny teacup in that affected manner that some women have
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- grandiose,
- high-minded,
- highfalutin
- (also hifalutin),
- la-di-da
- (also la-de-da or lah-de-dah or lah-dee-dah or lah-di-dah),
- ostentatious,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- snippy
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- arrogant,
- bumptious,
- complacent,
- conceited,
- egoistic
- (also egoistical),
- egotistic
- (or egotistical),
- high-and-mighty,
- high-handed,
- high-hat,
- hoity-toity,
- imperious,
- important,
- overweening,
- presumptuous,
- prideful,
- proud,
- self-asserting,
- self-assertive,
- self-centered,
- self-complacent,
- self-conceited,
- self-important,
- self-obsessed,
- self-pleased,
- self-satisfied,
- smug,
- uppity,
- vain,
- vainglorious
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- after years of being well affected toward their grandchildren, they did not want to lose access to them because of a bitter divorce
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affected
verb (1)Synonyms & Antonyms of affected (Entry 2 of 3)
- their son claims that scary movies don't affect him in the least
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- fortunately, hurricane season doesn't affect the West Coast
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verb (2)Synonyms & Antonyms of affected (Entry 3 of 3)
- she affected complete unawareness that we were talking about her, though she must have overheard
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- a power couple known to affect all the fancy parties in town
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- frequented,
- habituated,
- haunted,
- hung (at)
- (also hanged (at)),
- resorted (to),
- visited
Words Related to affected
- called (on or upon),
- dropped by,
- dropped in,
- popped (in),
- ran (in),
- stopped (in or by)
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“Affected.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/affected. Accessed 16 Jan. 2022.
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The first known use of affected was circa 1553
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