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1. Acted upon; influenced
    
2. Speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression
   - unnatural
    
3. Being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion
   - moved, stirred, touched

1. Have an effect upon
   "Will the new rules affect me?"
   - impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch
    
2. Act physically on; have an effect upon
   "the medicine affects my heart rate"
    
3. Connect closely and often incriminatingly
   "This new ruling affects your business"
   - involve, regard
    
4. Make believe with the intent to deceive
   - feign, sham, pretend, dissemble
    
5. Have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
   - impress, move, strike

Sounds like: effected

See also: affectedly, affectedness, affective, agonistic, artificial, constrained, contrived, effeteness, elocutionary, emotional, forced, hokey [N. Amer], impressed, mannered, plummy, sick, smitten, stage-struck, stilted, strained, stricken, struck, studied, subject, taken, wonder-struck

Type of: alter, bear on, belie, change, come to, concern, have to do with, misrepresent, modify, pertain, refer, relate, touch, touch on

Antonym: unaffected

Encyclopedia: Affect