Defenition of the word affect

• Defenition of the word affect

  • To act as if something is true.
  • To have an effect upon.
  • To have an emotional or cognitive impact upon.
  • the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion
  • act physically on; have an effect upon
  • have an effect upon; "Will the new rules affect me?"
  • have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This struck me as odd"
  • make believe; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"
  • connect closely and often incriminatingly; "This new ruling affects your business"
  • make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"
  • have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd"
  • have an effect upon
  • make believe with the intent to deceive
  • have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
  • connect closely and often incriminatingly

Synonyms for the word affect

• • alter
  • assume
  • bear on
  • bear upon
  • change
  • concern
  • dissemble
  • distress
  • disturb
  • fake
  • feign
  • have an effect on
  • have emotional impact
  • imitate
  • impact
  • impinge on
  • impress
  • influence
  • involve
  • move
  • pretend
  • pretend to have
  • put on
  • regard
  • sham
  • shape
  • strike
  • touch
  • touch on
  • upset

Similar words in the affect

• • affect
  • affectation
  • affectation's
  • affectations
  • affected
  • affecting
  • affectionate
  • affectionately
  • affectioned
  • affectioning
  • affections
  • affects

Hyponyms for the word affect

• • act upon
  • alienate
  • arouse
  • attack
  • awaken
  • bother
  • brace
  • bull
  • bullshit
  • calm
  • cloud
  • color
  • colour
  • cramp
  • discommode
  • disoblige
  • distort
  • disturb
  • endanger
  • energise
  • energize
  • engrave
  • excite
  • expose
  • fake
  • hit
  • hit home
  • hydrolise
  • hydrolize
  • implicate
  • impress
  • incommode
  • inconvenience
  • inebriate
  • infect
  • influence
  • ingrain
  • instill
  • intoxicate
  • jar
  • jaundice
  • loosen up
  • make relaxed
  • mouth
  • move
  • peril
  • perk up
  • pierce
  • play possum
  • process
  • put out
  • queer
  • redound
  • register
  • relax
  • repercuss
  • sadden
  • scupper
  • sedate
  • slam-dunk
  • smite
  • soak
  • stimulate
  • stir
  • strain
  • strike
  • strike a blow
  • strike a chord
  • strike a note
  • strike dumb
  • strike home
  • subject
  • surprise
  • sweep away
  • sweep off
  • take a dive
  • talk through one's hat
  • tell on
  • tense
  • tense up
  • tinge
  • touch
  • tranquilize
  • tranquillise
  • tranquillize
  • treat
  • trouble
  • ulcerate
  • unlax
  • unstrain
  • unwind
  • upset
  • work
  • zap

Hypernyms for the word affect

• • alter
  • bear on
  • belie
  • change
  • come to
  • concern
  • feeling
  • have-to doe with
  • misrepresent
  • modify
  • pertain
  • refer
  • relate
  • touch
  • touch on

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