Af*fect"ed (ăf*f&ebreve;kt"&ebreve;d), p. p. & a. 1. Regarded with affection; beloved. [Obs.]

His affected Hercules.
Chapman.

2. Inclined; disposed; attached.

How stand you affected to his wish?
Shak.

3. Given to false show; assuming or pretending to possess what is not natural or real.

He is . . . too spruce, too affected, too odd.
Shak.

4. Assumed artificially; not natural.

Affected coldness and indifference.
Addison.

5. (Alg.) Made up of terms involving different powers of the unknown quantity; adfected; as, an affected equation.

• Simple past and past participle of to affect.
  
• influenced or changed by something
       The thunderstorm affected the compass, and we got lost.
  
• simulated in order to impress
       He spoke with an affected English accent.