Affected and Plain

Affected

Affected adjective - Lacking in natural or spontaneous quality.

Plain is an antonym for affected.

Plain

Plain adjective - Free from all additions or embellishment.

Affected is an antonym for plain in ordinary topic.

Nearby Words: plainly, plainness, plaint

Both words in one sentence

  • Power Incontinence The worst affected character is Zhegorz, a man who was assumed to be plain old insane for having visions and hearing voices and was locked up in a Bedlam House until he really did develop paranoid schizophrenia or something like it.
  • Starfish Aliens An object sufficiently large stops being affected by it, so they have "worldplates" that are large, plain, triangular worlds, arranged in triangular patterns that make them look like a recursive Triforce, but it gets weird when you look at the 3-D model.
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