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Affected vs Troubled - What's the difference?

affected | troubled | Synonyms |

Affected is a synonym of troubled.


As adjectives the difference between affected and troubled

is that affected is influenced or changed by something while troubled is anxious, worried, careworn.

As verbs the difference between affected and troubled

is that affected is (affect) while troubled is (trouble).

As a noun affected

is someone , as by a disease.

affected

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • influenced or changed by something
  • The affected compass was impossible to use, so we got lost.
  • simulated in order to impress
  • He spoke with an affected English accent.
  • Emotionally moved; touched.
  • (algebra, archaic) adfected
  • an affected equation
  • Resulting from a mostly negative physical effect or transformation
  • See also

    * affectation

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone , as by a disease.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (affect)
  • The thunderstorm affected the compass, and we got lost.

    See also

    * effected

    troubled

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Anxious, worried, careworn.
  • *
  • *:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (trouble)