different between starched vs affected

English

Verb

starched

1. simple past tense and past participle of starch

Adjective

starched (comparative more starched, superlative most starched)

1. Of a garment: having had starch applied.
2. Stiff, formal, rigid; prim and proper.
   • 1712, Jonathan Swift, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, in The Works of Jonathan Swift, Dublin: George Faulkner, 1751, Volume 1, pp. 102-103,^[1]

     Does the Gospel any where prescribe a starched squeezed Countenance, a stiff formal Gait, a Singularity of Manners and Habit, or any affected Modes of Speech, different from the reasonable Part of Mankind?

   • 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, London: J. Johnson, Part 1, Chapter 5, Section 3, pp. 217-218,^[2]

     A cultivated understanding, and an affectionate heart, will never want starched rules of decorum—something more substantial than seemliness will be the result; and, without understanding the behaviour here recommended, would be rank affectation.

   • 1817, Walter Scott, Rob Roy, Volume 2, Chapter 8,^[3]

     I was not a little startled at recognising in his companions that very Morris on whose account I had been summoned before Justice Inglewood, and Mr. MacVittie the merchant, from whose starched and severe aspect I had recoiled on the preceding day.

   • 1961, Bernard Malamud, A New Life, Penguin, 1968, p. 107,^[4]

     ‘ […] CD is a fair-enough scholar but starched like my grand-daddy’s collar.’

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:starched.

Anagrams

• cartshed, destarch, herd cats

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??f?kt?d/
• Hyphenation: af?fect?ed

Adjective

affected (comparative more affected, superlative most affected)

1. Influenced or changed by something.

   The affected products had to be recalled.

2. Simulated in order to impress.

   He spoke with an affected English accent.

3. Emotionally moved; touched.
4. (algebra, archaic) adfected.

   an affected equation

5. Resulting from a mostly negative physical effect or transformation.
6. artificial, stilted

Translations

See also

• affectation

Noun

affected (plural affecteds)

1. Someone affected, as by a disease.

Verb

affected

1. simple past tense and past participle of affect

   The thunderstorm affected the compass, and we got lost.

See also

• effected