AFFECTED

Definitions

1. 1. Regarded with affection; beloved. [Obs.] His affected Hercules. Chapman.
2. 2. Inclined; disposed; attached. How stand you affected his wish Shak.
3. 3. Given to false show; assuming or pretending to posses what is not natural or real. He is . . . too spruce, too affected, too odd. Shak.
4. 4. Assumed artificially; not natural. Affected coldness and indifference. Addison.
5. 5. Made up of terms involving different powers of the unknown quantity; adfected; as, an affected equation.