• IPA: /əˈfɛktɪd/

affected

1. Influenced or changed by something.

   The affected products had to be recalled.

2. Simulated in order to impress.

   Synonyms: artificial, insincere, pretentious, mannered, stilted

   He spoke with an affected English accent.

   The affected articulation of his opinions made it challenging to discern his true stance.

   • 1951, J. D. Salinger, chapter 26, in The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC ↗:

     He drove over last Saturday with this English babe that’s in this new picture he’s writing. She was pretty affected, but very good-looking.

3. Emotionally moved; touched.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC ↗:

     Jones […] was easily prevailed on to satisfy Mr Dowling's curiosity, by relating the history of his birth and education, which he did, like Othello. […] Mr Dowling was indeed very greatly affected with this relation; for he had not divested himself of humanity by being an attorney.

4. (algebra, archaic) adfected.

   an affected equation

5. Resulting from a mostly negative physical effect or transformation.

• German: betroffen, beeinflusst, beeinträchtigt, tangiert, angegriffen, affiziert, gesinnt
• Italian: impattato

• German: affektiert, simuliert, vorgegeben, vorgespielt, vorgespiegelt, erheuchelt
• Italian: lezioso, affettato

• German: betroffen, beeindruckt, angesprochen, getroffen, leidenschaftlich, bewegt
• Italian: colpito

• French: affecté
• German: angegriffen, in Mitleidenschaft gezogen, beschwert
• Italian: colpito, afflitto
• Portuguese: afetado
• Spanish: afectado, aquejado

• German: affektiert, gekünstelt, vorgespielt, vorgespiegelt, geziert, blasiert, manieriert
• Italian: manierato, affettato, lezioso
• Russian: притво́рный

affected (plural affecteds)

1. Someone affected, as by a disease.
   • 1979, Journal of Behavioral Medicine, page 306:

     Affecteds felt that they get conflicting orders from superiors more frequently than did nonaffecteds […] . Affecteds were more frequently bothered by feelings of a sharp increase in their workload than nonaffecteds […] .

1. Simple past tense and past participle of affect

   The thunderstorm affected the compass, and we got lost.