Usually means: Impacted or influenced in some way.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. affected: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. affected: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. affected, affected: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. affected: Collins English Dictionary
  5. affected: Vocabulary.com
  6. Affected, affected: Wordnik
  7. affected: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. affected: Wiktionary
  9. affected: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. affected: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. affected: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Affected, affected: Dictionary.com
  13. affected: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Affected: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Affected: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. affected: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. affected: Rhymezone
  18. affected: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. affected: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. affected: Free Dictionary
  21. affected: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. affected: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. affected: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. affected: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. affected: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. affected: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Influenced or changed by something.
▸ adjective:  Simulated in order to impress.
▸ adjective:  Emotionally moved; touched.
▸ adjective:  (algebra, archaic) adfected.
▸ adjective:  Resulting from a mostly negative physical effect or transformation.
▸ noun:  Someone affected, as by a disease.

Similar:
forced, impressed, smitten, mannered, touched, moved, strained, taken, contrived, artificial, more...

Opposite:
unaffected, genuine, natural, sincere, real

Types:
affecting, affectation, affectedly, affectingness, affectationism, affectationist, more...

Phrases:
ill affected, affected role, heat affected zone, well affected, Countries affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, more...

Adjectives:
heat, conflict, riot, hiv, long, host, well, non, refugee, aids, flood

Colors:
    pale pink,     muted gray,     soft lavender,     dusty rose,     faded blue, more...



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Similar:
forced, impressed, smitten, mannered, touched, moved, strained, taken, contrived, artificial, more...

Opposite:
unaffected, genuine, natural, sincere, real

Types:
affecting, affectation, affectedly, affectingness, affectationism, affectationist, more...

Phrases:
ill affected, affected role, heat affected zone, well affected, Countries affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, Species affected by poaching, easily affected, affected by, not affected, more...

Adjectives:
heat, conflict, riot, hiv, long, host, well, non, refugee, aids, flood

Colors:
    pale pink,     muted gray,     soft lavender,     dusty rose,     faded blue, more...



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