Of a thing: assumed or displayed for effect; forced, strained, stilted; (also) pretended, artificial.

= affected, adj.1 3a. See also affectate, adj.

Assumed or displayed artificially; put on for effect; artificial, stilted, ‘got up’.

Artificially created or contrived; not natural, spontaneous, or genuine; feigned, affected.

Characterized by affectation; artificially assumed; = affected, adj.1 3a. rare.

That ‘plays a part’; †representing or exhibiting in the manner of an actor (obsolete); that simulates, or is simulated; artificial, affected, assumed.

False, fake, ersatz. Of personal behaviour: feigned, affected, disingenuous (cf. faux-naïf, n. adj.). Of a material: synthetic, artificial, made in…

Of shame, pride: Arising from mistaken notions.

That has been posed (in various senses); deliberately adopted or put on, artificial.

Contrived, deliberate, studied. Also as n. (esp. collective).

Often with capital initial. Osbert Lancaster's mock or depreciative name for: a style or supposed ‘school’ of architecture regarded as imitative or…

Characterized by hokum; sentimental, melodramatic, artificial.

Chiefly colloquial and derogatory. False or spurious; pretended, fake; so-called. Also, in later use: intellectually or socially pretentious or…

Adopted as a pose, affected; = posed, adj.3 rare.

figurative. Artificial, unnatural; superficial, insincere.