deeply affected
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4.3
- adjective
- The DSS workers who traveled to Texas to interview detainees returned deeply affected by what they saw and experienced.
- deeply affected by the idea
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Watch on YouTubeThe people who have been most deeply affected initially are the poor, the disenfranchised, people living in slums.
- The people who have been most deeply affected initially are the poor, the disenfranchised, people living in slums.
- So he left, but he'd obviously been deeply affected by that kind of dedication to something beyond himself, I suppose you could say.
Examples
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We as a community have all been deeply affected by our loss.
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When he arrived, he was deeply affected by the injustices he witnessed.
Academic text (2009) -
I had the opportunity to play in a demo of it, and it deeply affected me as well.
Blog text (30) -
I lost a former co-worker this past week to suicide, and it has deeply affected me.
Blog text (3) -
He was deeply affected by the death of his wife, Sara.
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Dan: The families I've met are deeply affected and usually financially devastated.
Blog text (18) -
In this case, most of the newcomers came from Spain and Italy, countries deeply affected by the ideological convulsions of our century.
Academic text (1993) -
To the contrary, Abdullah appears to have been deeply affected by Jordan's difficult experience in the 1990-91 Gulf War, for example.
Academic text (2004) -
Nineteen-year-old Susanna isn't overweight but nonetheless has been deeply affected by media stereotypes.
Academic text (1997) -
We as a community have all been deeply affected by our loss.
Synonyms
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3.6
Changed because of something outside
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3.6
Feeling a strong emotion because something touched your heart
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3.7
Deeply moved by feelings, often by a kind act or praise
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4.3
Feeling strong emotion that makes you cry
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3.7
Moved by something touching or exciting
Antonyms
How Affected
Surface Forms
Morphology
Both constituents combine in a straightforward, compositional way: 'deeply' expresses a high degree/intensity and 'affected' means emotionally impacted, so the phrase means 'strongly influenced emotionally' directly from the parts. This adverb + adjective pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows regular English intensification, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Deeply affected uses a simple image: deeply means 'far down' and affected means 'emotionally changed', like a stone that sinks and reaches the bottom of a pond. So, it says a feeling has reached far inside a person and 'moved' them strongly.