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  1. Being subject to influence

    moved, touched, melted, influenced, sympathetic, stirred, grieved, overwhelmed, moved to tears, hurt, injured, wakened, struck, impressed, brought to a realization of, overwrought, imbued with, devoured by, acted upon, worked upon, changed, altered, concerned, involved, interested, afflicted, attacked, stricken, compassionate, tender, sorry, troubled, distressed.

    Antonyms indifferent*, unmoved, untouched.

  2. Full of affectation

    insincere, pretentious, pedantic, melodramatic, self-conscious, starchy, stagy, unnatural, histrionic, stilted, overprecise, superficial, mannered, precious, theatrical, stiff, strained, mincing, overdone, apish, ostentatious, showy, exhibitionistic, hollow, shallow, highfalutin*, arty*, too-too*, stuck-up*, la-di-da*.

    Antonyms simple*, natural, genuine.

  3. Feigned

    simulated, imitated, faked, unnatural, counterfeited, falsified, shammed, studied, artificial, pretended, bogus, phony*, put-on*.

See affected in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II

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