affected
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
affected/əˈfektɪd/
▶adjective
- 1 artificial, pretentious, and designed to impress.
- 2 archaic disposed or inclined in a specified way.
– derivatives
affectedly adverb,
affectedness noun.
affectedly adverb,
affectedness noun.
'affected' also found in these Oxford entries:
affection
- Aids-related complex
- air
- airsick
- alcoholic
- antibiosis
- artificial
- arty
- bilious
- bit
- blister
- break
- carsick
- cockney
- cold
- constipated
- cursor
- dengue
- despite
- detached
- distribution
- drunk
- dude
- dystrophic
- -ed
- -ee
- effete
- emotional
- encephalopathy
- environment
- episode
- ergotism
- external
- fait accompli
- feel
- feign
- footprint
- fraught
- free
- freedom
- freemartin
- gangrene
- heart
- hectic
- hormonal
- humour
- hydro-
- hypochondriac
- immune
