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affected

adj
/əˈfɛktɪd/

Definitions

  1. Influenced or changed by something.

    • The affected products had to be recalled.

  2. Simulated in order to impress.

    • He spoke with an affected English accent.
    • The affected articulation of his opinions made it challenging to discern his true stance.
    • 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

    Emotionally moved; touched.

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. adfected.

      • an affected equation

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

    3. Someone affected, as by a disease.

      • 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 […].

    4. simple past and past participle of affect

      • The thunderstorm affected the compass, and we got lost.

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Derived

affected equation, affectedly, affectedness, gender-affected, ill-affected, inaffected, misaffected, nonaffected, transmisogyny-affected

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at affected. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01affected02changed03undergone04undergo05beneath06dignity07stateliness08stately09impressive10impressed

A definitional loop anchored at affected. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at affected

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA