Synonyms for affected
əˈfɛk tɪdaf·fect·ed

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1. affectedadjective

   acted upon; influenced

   Synonyms:
   touched, moved(p), stirred, unnatural

   Antonyms:
   unaffected, superior(p), unstilted, natural, unimpressed, untouched, lifelike, unselfconscious, unswayed, unmannered, uninfluenced, immune

2. affected, unnaturaladjective

   speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression

   Synonyms:
   touched, moved(p), stirred, abnormal, unnatural

   Antonyms:
   unmannered, unaffected, unstilted, superior(p), lifelike, unselfconscious, natural, uninfluenced, unimpressed, unswayed, immune, untouched

3. moved(p), affected, stirred, touchedadjective

   being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion

   "too moved to speak"; "very touched by the stranger's kindness"

   Antonyms:
   untouched, uninfluenced, unaffected, lifelike, natural, unmannered, immune, unimpressed, unselfconscious, unswayed, unstilted, superior(p)

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1. affectedadjective

   Synonyms:
   assumed, feigned, unnatural, artificial, insincere, canting

2. affectedadjective

   Synonyms:
   assuming, pretending, pretentious, conceited, vain, coxcomical, priggish

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1. affectedadjective

   Synonyms:
   assumed, feigned, simulated, unnatural

   Antonyms:
   unaffected, sincere, natural, unfeigned

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1. List of paraphrases for "affected":

   impacted, hit, concerned, afflicted, influenced, touched, assigned, stricken, allocated, impact, involved, affect, earmarked, struck, damaged, infected, affecting, effects, touché, influence, affectées, harmed, posted, suffered, victims, injured, mine-affected, implications, impaired, unaffected, disaster-stricken, affects, disrupted, ill-fated, interested, impacts

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1. Mario Tama/Getty Images:

   I can't stand that everybody just kind of falls back on that whole Trump thing. It bothers me…when politics become involved because that's not what it's about, and I don't want people to focus on that. I want people to focus on what's really happening, which is safety and how we're all being affected.

2. Aldous Huxley:

   Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.

3. Taysom Hill:

   Its all about, in the NFL, winning the field position battle. We talk about it week in and week out, the punt is the biggest contributor to that, and the punt return. And we saw how that affected the game last week.

4. Matthew Stone:

   An outbreak of African swine fever is a very serious event, the authorities of countries affected are under extraordinary pressure.

5. Ariel Henry:

   When it comes to medical needs, this is our biggest urgency. We have started to send medications and medical personnel to the facilities that are affected, for the people who need urgent special care, we have evacuated a certain number of them, and we will evacuate some more today and tomorrow.