Definitions for affected

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affected af·fect·ed

Spelling: [uh-fek-tid]

IPA: /əˈfɛk tɪd/

Affected is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 154 anagrams from letters in affected (acdeefft).

Definitions for affected

noun

1. Psychology. feeling or emotion.
2. Psychiatry. an expressed or observed emotional response:
3. Obsolete. affection; passion; sensation; inclination; inward disposition or feeling.

adjective

1. acted upon; influenced.
2. influenced in a harmful way; impaired, harmed, or attacked, as by climate or disease.
3. (of the mind or feelings) impressed; moved; touched:
4. assumed artificially; unnatural; feigned:
5. assuming or pretending to possess that which is not natural:
6. inclined or disposed:
7. held in affection; fancied:

verb (used with object)

1. to act on; produce an effect or change in:
2. to impress the mind or move the feelings of:
3. (of pain, disease, etc.) to attack or lay hold of.
4. to give the appearance of; pretend or feign:
5. to assume artificially, pretentiously, or for effect:
6. to use, wear, or adopt by preference; choose; prefer:
7. to assume the character or attitude of:
8. (of things) to tend toward habitually or naturally:
9. (of animals and plants) to occupy or inhabit; live in or on:
10. Archaic. to have affection for; fancy. to aim at; aspire to.

verb (used without object)

1. Obsolete. to incline, tend, or favor (usually followed by to):

Origin of affected

First recorded in 1570-80; affect¹ + -ed²

Examples for affected

She stood aghast all this time, partly with real, partly with affected, surprise.

The government subsequently revised its estimate, saying that 74 percent of the trees had been affected.

According to the AP, as of October, there were only four people still alive who be affected by this legislation.

Cadge thinks me still betrothed to John, so she affected to misunderstand.

Only now, when we were able to talk frankly and at length, did I come to realize how profoundly it had affected him.

He affected an anchorman finesse in apologizing for “past mistakes” as a Ku Klux Klan leader.

They affected that they never habitually thought of lesser concerns.

Like many of the courtiers, Mistress Fitton affected the society of the players.

I said, that I should not be affected by the splendour of even a royal title.

In 2007, FWS reported that the beetle outbreak had affected only 16 percent of the whitebark pines.