Dictionary entry details
• AFFECT (noun)
Meaning:
The conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("affect" is a kind of...):
feeling (the experiencing of affective and emotional states)
• AFFECT (verb)
Meaning:
Have an effect upon
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
affect; bear upon; impact; bear on; touch on; touch
Context example:
Will the new rules affect me?
Hypernyms (to "affect" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "affect"):
endanger; expose; peril; queer; scupper (put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position)
hit; strike (affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely)
subject (cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to)
bother; discommode; disoblige; incommode; inconvenience; put out; trouble (to cause inconvenience or discomfort to)
act upon; influence; work (have and exert influence or effect)
slam-dunk (make a forceful move against)
color; colour; distort; tinge (affect as in thought or feeling)
hydrolise; hydrolize (make a compound react with water and undergo hydrolysis)
process; treat (subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition)
excite; stimulate (act as a stimulant)
redound (have an effect for good or ill)
tell on (produce an affect or strain on somebody)
repercuss (cause repercussions; have an unwanted effect)
strike a blow (affect adversely)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Act physically on; have an effect upon
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "affect" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "affect"):
attack (begin to injure)
inebriate; intoxicate; soak (make drunk (with alcoholic drinks))
register (enter into someone's consciousness)
jaundice (affect with, or as if with, jaundice)
loosen up; make relaxed; relax; unlax; unstrain; unwind (cause to feel relaxed)
strain; tense; tense up (cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious)
arouse; brace; energise; energize; perk up; stimulate (cause to be alert and energetic)
calm; sedate; tranquilize; tranquillise; tranquillize (cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to)
ulcerate (affect with an ulcer)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Connect closely and often incriminatingly
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
involve; affect; regard
Context example:
This new ruling affects your business
Hypernyms (to "affect" is one way to...):
bear on; come to; concern; pertain; refer; relate; touch; touch on (have to do with or be relevant to)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "affect"):
implicate (bring into intimate and incriminating connection)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Make believe with the intent to deceive
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
pretend; feign; dissemble; sham; affect
Context examples:
He feigned that he was ill / He shammed a headache
Hypernyms (to "affect" is one way to...):
belie; misrepresent (represent falsely)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "affect"):
mouth (articulate silently; form words with the lips only)
bull; bullshit; fake (talk through one's hat)
take a dive (pretend to be knocked out, as of a boxer)
play possum (to pretend to be dead)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE
Meaning:
Have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Synonyms:
impress; strike; affect; move
Context examples:
This child impressed me as unusually mature / This behavior struck me as odd
Cause:
experience; feel (undergo an emotional sensation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "affect"):
pierce (move or affect (a person's emotions or bodily feelings) deeply or sharply)
impress (impress positively)
sweep away; sweep off (overwhelm emotionally)
disturb; trouble; upset (move deeply)
stir; touch (affect emotionally)
move (arouse sympathy or compassion in)
sadden (make unhappy)
alienate (make withdrawn or isolated or emotionally dissociated)
cloud (make gloomy or depressed)
smite (affect suddenly with deep feeling)
hit home; strike a chord; strike a note; strike home (refer to or be relevant or familiar to)
infect (affect in a contagious way)
surprise (cause to be surprised)
impress; ingrain; instill (produce or try to produce a vivid impression of)
awaken (make aware)
engrave (impress or affect deeply)
strike dumb (render speechless, as by surprising or shocking)
zap (strike suddenly and with force)
jar (affect in a disagreeable way)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s somebody
Sentence examples:
The bad news will affect him
The good news will affect her
