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Affected refers to a pretentious and fake action or speech. (ajective)
An example of the word affected is to describe the speech of a person who uses an accent that is not authentic.
Affected describes a situation when something impacts you or describes something that was directed towards you and resulted in some emotional or other change in you. (adjective)
- An example of affected is when a person is emotional as a result of a moving performance.
- An example of affected is when a person is no longer able to afford his house because property taxes went up.
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