Affected /(ăf*fĕkt"ĕd)/

Af·fect·ed

Affected

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