Affecting Synonyms

ə-fĕktĭng
Exciting a deep, usually somber response
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. moving
  2. touching
  3. poignant
  4. impressive
  5. stirring
  6. pathetic
Have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. striking
  2. touching
  3. swaying
  4. moving
  5. interesting
  6. influencing
  7. hitting
  8. modifying
  9. turning
  10. getting
  11. stirring
  12. simulating
  13. impressing
  14. seizing
  15. professing
  16. pretending
  17. gripping
  18. concerning
  19. operating
  20. changing
  21. melting
  22. afflicting
  23. attacking
  24. harming
  25. inclining
  26. impairing
  27. frequenting
  28. altering
  29. feigning
  30. fancying
  31. embracing
  32. disposing
  33. cultivating
  34. counterfeiting
  35. inducing
  36. transforming
  37. bluffing
  38. assuming
  39. impacting
To move emotionally
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. swaying
  2. stirring
  3. touching
Inspiring or capable of inspiring strong emotion; moving.
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. moving

Words Related to Affecting

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. pitiful
  2. touch
  3. See syn. study at

Affecting Sentence Examples

  • The Other didn't notice him, perhaps because of the strange issues affecting magic.

  • A'Ran met her blows gently, redirecting them without affecting her balance.

  • This factor is the Record of the Past, which grows and develops by laws other than those affecting the perishable bodies of successive generations of mankind, and exerts an incomparable influence upon the educable brain, so that man, by the interaction of the Record and his educability, is removed to a large extent from the status of the organic world and placed in a new and unique position, subject to new laws and new methods of development unlike those by which the rest of the living world is governed.

  • The sovereigns saw that wealth was beginning to flow in to the new tribunals by means of fines and confiscations; and they obliged Torquemada to take as assessors five persons who would represent them in all matters affecting the royal prerogatives.

  • The anxiety, fatigue and cold to which he was thus exposed, affecting a constitution naturally weak, laid the foundation of the disease to which he afterwards succumbed.

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