Dictionary entry

Affected

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Af‐fect″ed (ăf‐fĕkt″ĕd), p. p. & a. 1. Regarded with affection; beloved.

His affected Hercules.

Chapman.

2. Inclined; disposed; attached.

How stand you affected to his wish?

Shak.

3. Given to false show; assuming or pretending to possess what is not natural or real.

He is... too spruce, too affected, too odd.

Shak.

4. Assumed artificially; not natural.

Affected coldness and indifference.

Addison.

5. (Alg.) Made up of terms involving different powers of the unknown quantity; adfected; as, an affected equation.