affect
affect is a 6-letter English word with 16 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
- transitive verb. To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch.
- transitive verb. To love; to regard with affection.
- transitive verb. To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually.
- transitive verb. To dispose or incline.
- transitive verb. To aim at; to aspire; to covet.
- transitive verb. To tend to by affinity or disposition.
- transitive verb. To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance.
- transitive verb. To assign; to appoint.
- noun. Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition.
- noun. the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion
- verb. act physically on; have an effect upon
"the medicine affects my heart rate"
- verb. have an effect upon
"Will the new rules affect me?"
- verb. make believe with the intent to deceive
"He feigned that he was ill"
"He shammed a headache"
- verb. have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
"This child impressed me as unusually mature"
"This behavior struck me as odd"
- verb. connect closely and often incriminatingly
"This new ruling affects your business"
Synonyms
impact, touch, dissemble, feign, pretend, sham, impress, move, strike, involve, regard
Common word forms
affects, affected, affecter, affecting, affectable, affectless
Words from these letters
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