affectedadj.1
/əˈfɛktᵻd/, U.S. /əˈfɛktəd/ 1. Disposed or conditioned to the extent indicated by the modifying adverb (chiefly well or ill).† a. With reference to bodily condition or disposition. Obsolete. ill-affected adj. indisposed.
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1545 Bp. S. Gardiner Let. 6 Mar. (1933) 239 Finally I have left hym aswel affected as canne be.
1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 139 When the bodie is well affected.
1614 S. Latham Falconry ii. xiii. 104 When you doe perceiue your Hawke to be ill affected in that place.
1725 J. Sharp Compl. Midwife's Compan. (ed. 4) ii. viii. 88 If her Body be ill affected, the Blood that stays in the Womb is nought, as well as that she voids by her Terms.
b. With reference to the mind.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > kindness > [adjective]
mildeOE
blitheOE
goodOE
well-willingOE
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beneficious1535
kind-hearted1535
well-given1535
affectioned1539
well-wishing1548
figgy?1549
good-meaning1549
affectedc1553
affectionated1561
well-natured1561
well-affected?1563
officious1565
well-inclined1569
good-natured1582
partial1587
graceful?1593
well-intentioned1598
beneficent1616
candid1633
kindlike1637
benefic1641
kindly-hearted1762
well-meant1765
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sweet-hearted1850
c1553 T. Becon Jewel of Joye sig. B.viiiv A rare thynge and almoste a miracle to fynde an olde man namelye in those parties, where Christe I thynke as yet was neuer trulye preached, to be so well affected towarde the readyng of the sacred scriptures.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. iii. 198/2 If any good men were well affected or minded toward religion.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vi. 98 No maruaile then though he were ill affected . View more context for this quotation
1611 Bible (King James) Acts xiv. 2 Made their mindes euill affected against the brethren. View more context for this quotation
1647 J. Sprigge Anglia Rediviva iv. ix. 311 Many wel-affected Citizens also went forth.
1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. vi. 89 The Major part..being cordially Affected to the Government.
1753 Merlinus Liberatus 'Tis true ♃'s rays fall in the train, but unable to save by being evil effected, and therefore in part specificates the quality of death.
1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram I. i. ix. 151 You are an honest man,..and well affected to our family.
1884 W. Besant Dorothy Forster II. xix. 138 At Bamborough the Protestant gentlemen, including those who then and afterwards remained well affected to the Hanover usurpation, gathered together to meet Lord Derwentwater.
1917 Times 5 May 5/1 Despite endless intrigue on the part of German sympathizers and those ill affected to the regime, the rank and file of the Army have remained loyal alike to the British Alliance and to the flag.
1956 Times 6 Dec. 12/4 In order to succeed he has to satisfy a small committee of Privy Councillors that he is well affected to her Majesty.
a. Having a disposition or inclination of any kind (without modifying adverb); influenced by emotion. Obsolete.
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the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > quality of affecting the emotions > [adjective] > emotionally affected
affected1567
touched1595
1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. i. f. 21v The example of hys presente honestie hathe sturred vppe suche an affected humor wythin me that eyther I wyll dye in thindeuor, or els I wylbe equall.
1578 G. Whetstone Promos & Cassandra: 1st Pt. iii. i. sig. Civ O straying effectes, of blinde affected Loue, From wisdomes pathes, which doth astraye our wittes.
b. Having a favourable affection or inclination; favourably disposed or inclined; attached, partial (to). Cf. disaffected adj.1 Obsolete.
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > [adjective]
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willed1417
affecta1425
willinga1425
affectionatec1487
mindedc1487
talenteda1500
well-minded1524
affectioned?1532
affectionated1561
mindful1565
aminded1571
ingineda1583
affected1584
pregnant1604
in the (also a) —— mooda1625
fond1666
apt1677
the mind > emotion > love > liking or favourable regard > [adjective]
disposedc1430
affectuousc1441
affectioned1539
fond1548
affectionated1561
well-affectionate1567
affected1584
fancied1589
partial1621
predilective1790
1584 A. Munday (title) A Watch-woord to Englande..written by a faithfull affected freend to his Country.
c. Chiefly of a person: loved, beloved. Obsolete.
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the mind > emotion > love > loved one > [adjective]
lief and deara900
dearOE
sweetOE
lovedOE
dearlyOE
liefOE
dearworth?c1225
chere1297
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chary?a1400
sugaredc1475
tender1485
chereful1486
affectionatea1513
dilect1521
chare1583
ingling1595
darling1596
affected1600
in the love of1631
jewel-darling1643
adorable1653
fonded1684
endeared1841
dotey1852
1600 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliad viii. 318 In all the desperate hours Of his affected Hercules.
1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia (1629) 78 They should live with Powhatan as his chiefe affected.
1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis xi. 216 Her speare..Kist his affected lips without a wound.
1640 T. Fuller Joseph's Coat 183 Some Sacrifice the Reverence to this admired Preacher, and others almost adored this affected Pastor.
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. ii. 183 His love to his affected, though some 106 yeares posthumus Kinsman.
3.
a. Assumed or displayed artificially; put on for effect; artificial, stilted, ‘got up’.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [adjective] > affected or put on for effect
affectate?1555
affectated1574
affected1578
artificious1579
affective1630
theatrical1649
faux1684
false1791
posed1909
voulu1909
pseudish1938
hokey1945
pseudo1949
posé1958
plastic1963
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [adjective] > affected
affected1578
affecting1597
coxcombical1723
mannered1796
manneristical1830
manneristic1837
1578 G. Whetstone Promos & Cassandra 60 Euen so affected speeche doth misbecome a Clowne.
1589 T. Nashe Anat. Absurditie sig. Civ Bald affected eloquence.
1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits x. 136 To haue a readie tongue of his owne, and not affected, choice words.
1642 J. March Argument Militia To Rdr. sig. A2 I have not used any affected style.
1678 Rochester in C. M. Ingleby & L. T. Smith Shakespeare's Cent. Prayse (1879) 364 But does not Dryden find..Shake-spear's stile Stiff and affected?
a1721 J. Sheffield Wks. (1723) I. 82 An Air affected, and a haughty Mien; Something that seems to say, I would be seen.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Prenk, Prink, Pronk, to decorate, to dress in a showy, affected manner.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 645 His diction, affected and florid, but often singularly beautiful and melodious, fascinated many young enthusiasts.
1922 ‘K. Mansfield’ Garden Party 69 But that sounded so fearfully affected that she was ashamed.
1943 M. Schlauch Gift of Tongues 264 English writers themselves have sometimes jeered at certain details of ‘public school-Oxford’ speech as being affected.
1966 ‘J. Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea 95 ‘I would trust him with my life,’ he went on in an affected voice.
1990 J. Meyers D. H. Lawrence xiv. 233 He wore a blue silk dressing gown, had affected manners and speech, insisted on his status as a gentleman and was a rabid woman-hater.
b. Assumed falsely or in outward appearance; pretended, simulated.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [adjective]
fainta1340
counterfeit1393
pretense1395
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feigned1413
disguisyc1430
colourable1433
pretending1434
simulate1435
dissimuled1475
simulative1490
coloureda1500
dissimulate?a1500
simuled1526
colorate1528
dissembled1539
mock1548
devised1552
pretended?1553
artificial1564
supposed1566
counterfeited1569
supposing?1574
affecteda1586
pretensive1607
false1609
supposite1611
simulara1616
simulatory1618
simulated1622
put-ona1625
ironic1631
ironical1646
devisable1659
pretensional1659
pretenced1660
pretensory1663
vizarded1663
shammed?c1677
sham1681
faux1684
fictitious1739
ostensible1762
made-up1773
mala fide1808
assumed1813
semblative1814
fictioned1820
pretextual1837
pseudo1854
fictive1855
schlenter1881
faked1890
phoney1893
phantom1897
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. ix. f. 38v He found Pyrocles leaue that, and fall into such an affected praising of the place.
a1602 W. Perkins Cases of Consc. (1619) 332 Inordinate and affected care is commonly a great pickpurse.
1664 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders (new ed.) i. sig. f5v Those Lines must be visible, no affected ones, nor small as a hair.
1689 Ess. Satyr in Fourth Coll. Poems 27 Dissembling still in either place, Affected Humour, or a painted Face.
1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 153. ⁋11 Without any of the heir's affected grief or secret exultation.
1850 T. T. Lynch Memorials Theophilus Trinal v. 85 This their dull sadness..is affected and heartless.
1879 J. McCarthy Hist. Own Times I. 30 His real or affected levity gave way to a genuine and lasting desire to make her life happy.
1905 Wellsboro (Pa.) Agitator 22 Nov. 2/5 There was none of that affected modesty which is sometimes seen in the political maneuvers.
1920 D. H. Lawrence Women in Love xiv. 177 He came smiling to them with his affected social grace, that somehow was never quite right.
1952 J. L. Waten Alien Son 23 ‘Foolish boy,’ Father said with affected sorrow, ‘you know less than a parrot.’
2003 New Statesman (Nexis) 7 July Rugby League has been the target of generations of social and regional snobbery, which are not quite at an end, judging by Cowley's affected ignorance of its existence.
c. Of a person: full of affectation; artificial in manner, pretentious; assuming airs.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [adjective]
streiche?a1513
fustian1523
nipping1568
fashionative1584
affected1598
affectate1599
affecting1600
snufflinga1640
whalebone1801
stiltish1824
stilty1845
posturing1851
greenery-yallery1881
mee-mawing1886
meemaw1898
faisandé1912
twee1956
nerdy1960
pseud1962
pseudo1964
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. i. 13 He is too picked, to spruce, too affected, to od. View more context for this quotation
1689 T. Shadwell Bury-Fair i. i. 122 Conceited affected Jades.
1703 N. Rowe Fair Penitent ii. i. 440 Each affected She that tells my story.
1737 A. Pope Epist. of Horace ii. i. 7 Damn all Shakespear, like th' affected fool.
1858 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. I. 157 She seemed to be her actual self, and nothing affected or made up.
1948 D. Cecil Two Quiet Lives 88 One is tempted to dismiss him [sc. Horace Walpole] as an affected petit-maître who happened to be gifted with a talent for letter writing.
1962 O. Manning Spoilt City i. v. 56 She's an affected bore.
1998 N.Y. Mag. 12 Jan. 49/2 Miss Murphy turns a sweet, complaisant blossom of the Eisenhower era into an affected, hyperactive San Fernando nerve-grater.
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a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iv. sig. Oo2v No, no, he hath vired all this while, but to come the sooner to his affected ende.
1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres iv. xcii. sig. Y3v Twixt York, and the affected sou'raignty.
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 14v With other lesse beneficiall, and affected commodities.
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the mind > will > intention > [adjective] > performed with intention
bethoughtc1200
expressa1400
wilfula1400
purposedc1422
purpensed1436
malice prepensed1454
aforethought1472
studiedc1475
setc1485
voluntary1495
deliberate?1527
willing1550
witting1553
propensed1560
fore-intendeda1586
affected1586
designed1586
determinate1586
intended1592
deliberated1594
uncasual1614
recollecteda1616
resolved1624
industriousa1628
intentionate1631
pre-intended1636
advised1642
malice prepense1647
sedentary1647
propense1650
consultive1651
(crime, evil, etc.) of forethought1692
conscious1726
intentionala1729
systematic1746
studious1750
systematical1750
prepensive1752
advertent1832
self-conscious1832
volitive1839
designful1852
purposeful1853
purposive1864
thought-controlled1926
1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 159 Man hauing by nature imprinted in his soule an affected and earnest inclination to his soueraigne good.
a1618 W. Raleigh Prerogatiue Parl. (1628) 42 Make the world know, that his cruelty was not affected.
1623 W. Lisle in tr. Ælfric Saxon Treat. Old & New Test. Pref. 13 Grosse, wilfull, and affected ignorance.
1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. Epist. & Gospels I. 171 Their Love and Preference of Darkness is more affected and obstinate.
1740 S. Johnson Thirty-six Select Disc. ii. 43 On the other Hand, the neglecting the Objects of Faith, a wilful and affected Ignorance of them, and Neglect of acting according to them, will be as much a Fault or a Vice in us, as any other Neglect.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
affectedadj.2n.
/əˈfɛktᵻd/, U.S. /əˈfɛktəd/ A. adj.2
1. Afflicted or tainted by disease. In later use merging with sense A. 3.
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1578 J. Banister Hist. Man sig. Aiiii Meanes to cure the affected partes of the bodie.
1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke v. ii. 200 There be many and sundrie differences..[proceeding] from the affected partes.
a1809 T. Paine Yellow Fever in Polit. & Misc. Wks. (1819) II. 180 Of the same extent as the affected part of a city.
1857 T. Watson Lect. Physic (ed. 4) xxviii. 502 To conclude that the side towards which the mouth was drawn was the affected side.
1864 Daily Tel. 26 May The accused was mentally affected, her father and three of her aunts having all been insane.
1868 Public Opin. 2 May 460/1 On examination of the affected region with the hand.
1910 Practitioner July 99 In some cases of hemiplegia due to encephalitis, choreiform or athetotic movements have been observed in the affected limbs.
1999 Independent 19 May i. 7/3 One in 160 people in the Afrikaner population in South Africa carries one copy of the gene for sclerosteosis, which causes bones to continue to gain mass throughout an affected individual's life.
2. Mathematics. Of an equation: containing different powers of an unknown quantity; = adfected adj. Now historical.
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the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [adjective] > relating to mathematical enquiry > of calculation > combining several elements
compound1557
compounded1600
adfected1647
affected1669
1669 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 4 931 Some affirm, they can give good Approaches for the obtaining a Root of any pure power, affected Equation, or for the finding of any of the mean Proportionals in any Rank between two extreams given.
1706 H. Ditton Inst. Fluxions ix. 170 Any one of the Abscisses..being given and esteemed as a known Quantity, the value of the other may be had, by resolving an affected Quadratick Equation.
1799 C. Butler Easy Introd. Algebra 160 An affected quadratic equation is that which contains the square of the unknown quantity in one term, and its first power in another.
1911 Amer. Math. Monthly 18 10 Heron..seems to have solved the affected quadratic equation ax2 + bx = c by completing the square, but the evidence is not conclusive.
1996 College Math. Jrnl. 27 330 Newton presented..a similar method for writing y in terms of x when y is implicitly defined in terms of x by a polynomial equation—a so-called ‘affected equation’.
3. Acted on, influenced, or moved, either physically or materially.
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the world > action or operation > operation upon something > [adjective] > involving subjection to action or influence > affected or influenced
affected1763
influenced1818
1763 S. Dunn in Philos. Trans. 1762 (Royal Soc.) 52 468 Trees and bushments of equal magnitude at other times, but in their affected state as much larger.
1877 Proc. Royal Soc. 26 553 The difference between the radiations from or towards the affected portion of the bulb.
1941 Sun (Baltimore) 23 Sept. 12/2 Now the affected union, the Seafarers' International Union of the AFL, serves formal notice that it will strike every ship on which it has contracts.
1991 Internat. Rev. Appl. Ling. in Lang. Teaching 29 305 While the ‘resultant object’ ‘is an object whose referent exists only by virtue of the activity indicated by the verb’..,the ‘affected object’ is already there, something is done to it by the activity expressed by the verb.
2005 Road & Track Nov. 110/3 This ‘congestion charge’, as it's called, has reduced traffic by about 18 percent in the affected area.
4. As the second element in compounds formed with a noun, as disease-affected, drought-affected, etc.
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1885 Newport (Rhode Island) Mercury 28 Mar. 5/1 So great is the suffering of the people in the drought-affected district that the authorities..were appealed to yesterday.
1891 Times 15 Aug. 7/6 The existing risk of dangerous diseases being contracted through the consumption of unsound or disease-affected animal food.
1905 Daily Chron. 26 July 1/7 A brilliant innings by Darling was the redeeming feature of Australia's batting on a rain-affected wicket at Manchester.
1957 Welding, Brazing & Soldering Wiggin Nickel Alloys (H. Wiggin & Co. Ltd.) 11 The heat-affected zone produced by welding does not introduce any hazards.
1967 Bull. Entomol. Res. 57 443 Any effects of removal upon density-affected phenomena have not been linked to the removal process.
1996 Farmers Weekly 22 Nov. 14/4 An accelerated cull of cohorts of BSE-affected cattle would have minimal impact on BSE.
B. n.
A person who or thing which is affected, esp. by a disease. Frequently in plural.
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1909 W. Bateson Mendel's Princ. Heredity (new ed.) xii. 221 Nettleship thinks there are reasons for supposing the number of affecteds somewhat understated, through a disposition to conceal the infirmity.
1988 Nature 8 Dec. 578/1 The superscripts on these numbers indicate the presence in the pedigree of (a) affected siblings; (b) affected cousins, and (c) inbred affecteds.
2003 R. K. Wilson et al. in Genome Homo Sapiens 25/2 The mutational spectrum of this gene in affecteds has been profiled by previous studies.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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- to bury the hatchet
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- to bury the tomahawk
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