Affected and Expressed

Affected

Affected adjective - Lacking in natural or spontaneous quality.

Expressed and affected are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Expressed" instead a verb "Affected".

Expressed

Expressed adjective - Communicated in words.

Affected and expressed are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Affected" instead a verb "Expressed".

Both words in one sentence

  • I Just Want to Be Normal All of them have, at some point, expressed a desire to live normal lives, but Face seems the most affected by it.
  • The author herself expressed shock over how strongly people were affected by what she had written.
  • Useful Notes / Henry VIII Perhaps Jane's religious and personal connections to the Pilgrimage (Robert Aske was her cousin) had soured Henry on Jane; no matter the reason, however, Henry affected in later years grief at Jane's death that he apparently never expressed at the time of her death.
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