affected
Something that's affected is influenced or acted upon. If a bottle of ointment says "apply to the affected area," you should put the medication only on the parts of your skin that touched the poison ivy.
One of the most common vocabulary mix-ups is effect and affect: effect is usually a noun, and affect is usually a verb that means "to influence" of "act upon." Affected is the adjective form of the verb. After a flood, affected homeowners might try to get insurance. A sad movie might leave you deeply affected. The word can also refer to behavior that's done only to impress someone: if you're acting affected, you might use big, fake melodramatic gestures.
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acted upon; influencedsynonyms:impresseddeeply or markedly affected or influencedstage-struckinfatuated with or enthralled by the theater especially the desire to actsubjectlikely to be affected by somethingtakenbe affected with an indispositionwonder-struckaffected by or overcome with wonderantonyms:unaffectedundergoing no change when acted uponimmune(usually followed by `to') not affected by a given influencesuperior(often followed by `to') above being affected or influenced byunimpressednot moved to serious regard
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being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion
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speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impressionsynonyms: unnaturalelocutionary(used of style of speaking) overly embellishedmanneredhaving unnatural mannerismsplummy(of a voice) affectedly mellow and richstudiedproduced or marked by conscious design or premeditationantonyms:unaffectedfree of artificiality; sincere and genuineunmanneredwithout artificiality; naturalunselfconsciousnot self-consciousunstiltedflowing naturally and continuously
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