Affected vs. Infected

Affectedadjective

Regarded with affection; beloved.

‘His affected Hercules.’;

Infectedverb

simple past tense and past participle of infect

‘Slowly, the strange alien virus infected the whole town.’;

Affectedadjective

Inclined; disposed; attached.

‘How stand you affected to his wish?’;

Infectedadjective

Having an infection.

‘The infected bodies were hastily piled up and burned.’;

Affectedadjective

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

‘He is . . . too spruce, too affected, too odd.’;

Infectedadjective

contaminated with infecting organisms;

‘dirty wounds’; ‘obliged to go into infected rooms’;

Affectedadjective

Assumed artificially; not natural.

‘Affected coldness and indifference.’;

Infectedadjective

having undergone infection;

‘a purulent wound’;

Affectedadjective

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

Affectedadjective

acted upon; influenced

Affectedadjective

speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression

Affectedadjective

emotionally affected;

‘very touched by the stranger's kindness’;

Affectedadjective

influenced or touched by an external factor

‘affected areas’;

Affectedadjective

artificial, pretentious, and designed to impress

‘the gesture appeared both affected and stagy’;

Affectedadjective

disposed or inclined in a specified way

‘you might become differently affected towards him’;