1. Speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression
   "His affected accent made him sound pretentious";
   - unnatural
    
2. Acted upon; influenced
   "The coastal areas were severely affected by the hurricane"
    
3. Emotionally affected or aroused, especially to sympathy, gratitude, or tenderness
   "too affected to speak";
   - moved, stirred, touched

1. Have an effect upon
   "Will the new rules affect me?";
   - impact, bear upon, bear on
    
2. Act physically on; have an effect upon
   "the medicine affects my heart rate"
    
3. Have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
   "This child affected me as unusually mature";
   - impress, move, strike
    
4. Connect closely and often incriminatingly
   "This new ruling affects your business";
   - involve, regard
    
5. Make believe with the intent to deceive
   "She affected ignorance of the scandal";
   - feign, sham, pretend, dissemble

Sounds like: effected

See also: affectedness, agonistic, artificial, constrained, contrived, effeteness, elocutionary, emotional, forced, hokey [N. Amer, informal], impressed, mannered, plummy, poncey [Brit, informal], poncy [Brit, informal], sick, smitten, stage-struck, stilted, strained, stricken, struck, studied, subject, taken, wonder-struck

Type of: alter, bear on, belie, change, concern, have to do with, misrepresent, modify, pertain, refer, relate, touch, touch on

Antonym: unaffected

Encyclopedia: Affected