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affectedadjective lacking in natural or spontaneous qualityaffected laughter at the boss's jokes an affected southern accent artificial, assumed, bogus, contrived, factitious, fake, false, feigned, forced, mechanical, mock, phony(also phoney), plastic, pretended, pseudo, put-on, sham, simulated, spurious, strained, unnatural automatic, canned, concocted, fabricated, hokey, labored, manufactured, pat, unauthentic, unreal, unrealisticdouble-dealing, empty, facile, hollow, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, mealy, mealymouthed, two-faced, unctuousexaggerated, histrionic, melodramatic, overacted, overdone, theatrical(also theatric)cute, cutesy, genteel, goody-goody, mincing, overrefined, simperingconventional, formal, impersonal, inflexible, rigid, stiff, stylized, woodenartful, calculated, conscious, cultivated, deliberate, premeditated, studied artless, genuine, natural, spontaneous, unaffected, uncontrived, unfeigned, unforced authentic, bona fide, real, realistic, right, truehonest, ingenuous, sincere, unpretendingeasy, effortless, smoothextemporaneous, impromptu, impulsive, instinctive, unconscious, unprompted, unrehearsed, unstudied self-consciously trying to present an appearance of grandeur or importancewith her pinkie extended, the four-year-old held her tiny teacup in that affected manner that some women have grandiose, high-minded, highfalutin(also hifalutin), la-di-da(also la-de-da or lah-de-dah or lah-dee-dah or lah-di-dah), ostentatious, pompous, pretentious, snippy airy, grandiloquent, high-flown, high-sounding, high-toned, sententiousarrogant, bumptious, complacent, conceited, egoistic(also egoistical), egotistic(or egotistical), high-and-mighty, high-handed, high-hat, hoity-toity, imperious, important, overweening, presumptuous, prideful, proud, self-asserting, self-assertive, self-centered, self-complacent, self-conceited, self-important, self-obsessed, self-pleased, self-satisfied, smug, uppity, vain, vaingloriousself-aggrandizing, self-dramatizing, self-glorifying, self-promotingcavalier, disdainful, haughty, lordly, snobbish, snobby, stuck-up, supercilious, superiorconfident, self-assured, self-confident, sureboastful, braggart, braggingaggressive, assertive, audacious, bold, brassy, cheeky, cocky, forward, impudent, insolent, rudeflamboyant, flashy, flaunting, garish, gaudy, glitzy, showy, splashy modest, unpretentious demure, down-to-earth, homely, humble, lowly, meek, retiring, unassertive, unassumingbashful, diffident, mousy(or mousey), overmodest, passive, quiet, reserved, shy, timid having a liking or affectionafter years of being well affected toward their grandchildren, they did not want to lose access to them because of a bitter divorce attached, fond, inclined, partial crazy (about or over), enamored, enraptured, gone (on), infatuated, mad (about), nuts (about)desirous, eager, enthusiastic, excited, gung ho, keen big on allergic, averse, disinclined apathetic, cool, indifferent, uninterestedcontemptuous, disdainful, scornfulantagonistic, antipathetic, hostilealienated, disaffected, disenchanted, estranged affectedverb1past tense of affectto act upon (a person or a person's feelings) so as to cause a responsetheir son claims that scary movies don't affect him in the least impacted, impressed, influenced, moved, reached, struck, swayed, told (on), touched carried away, dazzled, enraptured, enthralled, entranced, ravished, transportedbiased(or biassed), coloredinspired, stirredengaged, interested, involved, penetrated, piercedafflicted, agitated, bothered, concerned, discomforted, discomposed, disquieted, distressed, disturbed, flustered, harassed, harried, perturbed, pestered, plagued, smote, strained, stressed, tried, troubled, upset, worried, wrungallured, attracted, bewitched, captivated, charmed, enchanted, fascinated got to bored, jaded, palled, tired, weariedunderwhelmed to be the business or affair offortunately, hurricane season doesn't affect the West Coast concerned, involved, touched appertained (to), applied (to), bore (on), pertained (to), referred (to), related (to)embroiled, ensnared, entangled, implicated affectedverb2past tense of affectto present a false appearance ofshe affected complete unawareness that we were talking about her, though she must have overheard acted, assumed, bluffed, counterfeited, dissembled, faked, feigned, passed (for), pretended, professed, put on, shammed, simulated dissimulated, impersonated, let on, masqueraded, playacted, played, posedforged, imitatedcamouflaged, concealed, disguised, maskedfeintedmalingered made believe to go to or spend time in oftena power couple known to affect all the fancy parties in town frequented, habituated, haunted, hung (at)(also hanged (at)), resorted (to), visited patronizedattended, took ininfested, invaded, overran, swarmedcalled (on or upon), dropped by, dropped in, popped (in), ran (in), stopped (in or by)camped (out in), sojourned (at), stayed (at), stopped (over), tarried (in) avoided, shunned dodged, ducked, eluded, escaped, eschewed, evaded, shook ca. 1553 |