What does "affected" mean?
Affected: Inclined; disposed; attached. How stand you affected his wish Shak.
Additional senses
- 2.Given to false show; assuming or pretending to posses what is not natural or real. He is . . . too spruce, too affected, too odd. Shak.
- 3.Assumed artificially; not natural. Affected coldness and indifference. Addison.
- 4.(Alg.) Made up of terms involving different powers of the unknown quantity; adfected; as, an affected equation.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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