Affected

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·p.p. & ·adj Inclined; disposed; attached.

II. Affected ·p.p. & ·adj Regarded with affection; beloved.

III. Affected ·p.p. & ·adj Assumed artificially; not natural.

IV. Affected ·Impf & ·p.p. of Affect.

V. Affected ·p.p. & ·adj Given to false show; assuming or pretending to possess what is not natural or real.

VI. Affected ·p.p. & ·adj Made up of terms involving different powers of the unknown quantity; adfected; as, an affected equation.

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