🎭 Not natural 🔄 Changed by something

affected

7.5

Not natural or sincere and done to impress others

adjective
/əˈfɛktɪd/

: artificial

So the point is just that, you know, some people are much more affected than others.

Examples

I feel like I'm more affected that way because doing drag on myself, it's like it's your canvas, it's your art.
Every now and then I'll make an effort to stop using it for fear that it sounds too affected, but I invariably give up.

Blog text (11)
These are affected and these are not affected, OK.
But yeah, I'm not that affected by caffeine.
She then said I know, I know I'm not supposed to be affected by him.
She is the, I think the least affected person I've ever met by this historic change that happened in her life.
He left Oxford back to California with an affected English accent, which really offended his American colleagues.
Bryce and the team are going in without the antidote, without their non parasite affected powers.
But for those who are more affected, please don't go like brigade their channels or their review websites because this is not a fault for the reviewers.
His affected mannerisms made it hard for people to take him seriously.

Synonyms

unnatural

vsaffected

10 4.9

Acting or speaking in a forced way to impress others

is a deliberate show designed to impress others

Antonyms

natural

660 1.0

Normal and healthy for the body or mind

genuine

156 3.2

Truly felt and not fake, for example a smile or apology

unaffected

2 4.8

Natural and sincere, without pretending

Compounds

deeply affected

5 4.3

Feeling very sad or moved by something

affected role

Specialized

9.1

A person or thing that an action happens to but does not cause

How Pretentious

ostentatious

11 7.7

pretentious

Offensive

74 7.3

affected

7.5

natural

660 1.0

Surface Forms

affected positive

Morphology

affected = affect (semi-transparent) = affect + ed

Formed from the verb 'affect' with -ed, but the adjectival sense 'pretentious, artificial' derives from a less common meaning 'to assume or pretend', so learners who know only the common 'influence' sense may not predict it.

Etymology

The word affected meaning 'artificial' or 'pretentious' comes from the same root affect, which long ago also meant 'to put on' a feeling or show. That's why an affected laugh or voice feels like something someone 'puts on' instead of a real feeling.