| VERB | change | affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch | have an effect upon |
|---|---|---|---|
| body | affect | act physically on | |
| stative | affect, involve, regard | connect closely and often incriminatingly | |
| communication | affect, feign, sham, pretend, dissemble | make believe with the intent to deceive / deceive | |
| emotion | affect, impress, move, strike | have an emotional or cognitive impact / impact upon | |
| NOUN | feeling | affect | the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion |
| Sounds | ahfeh'kt | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | abject ... wrecked: 66 rhymes with ehkt... | |
| Meaning | The conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion. | |
|---|---|---|
| Broader | feeling | The experiencing of affective and emotional states |
| Spanish | afecto | |
| Catalan | afecte | |
| Adjectives | affectional | characterized by emotion |
| Verbs | affect | have an emotional or cognitive impact / impact upon |
| Meaning | Have an effect upon. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "Will the new rules affect me?" | |
| Synonyms | impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch | |
| Narrower | hit, strike | affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely |
| hydrolize, hydrolise | make a compound react with water and undergo hydrolysis | |
| influence, act upon, work | Have and exert influence or effect | |
| process, treat | subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition | |
| queer, expose, scupper, endanger, peril | put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position | |
| redound | Have an effect for good or ill | |
| repercuss | Cause repercussions | |
| slam-dunk | make a forceful move against | |
| stimulate, excite | act as a stimulant | |
| strike a blow | affect adversely | |
| subject | Cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to | |
| tell on | produce an effect or strain on somebody | |
| tinge, color, colour, distort | affect as in thought or feeling | |
| trouble, put out, inconvenience, disoblige, discommode, incommode, bother | To cause inconvenience or discomfort to | |
| Broader | change, alter, modify | Cause to change |
| Spanish | afectar, conmover, impactar, repercutir, tocar | |
| Catalan | afectar, commoure, impactar, repercutir | |
| Meaning | act physically on; have an effect upon. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "the medicine affects my heart rate" | |
| Narrower | attack | Begin to injure / injure |
| cramp | Affect with or as if with a cramp | |
| intoxicate, soak, inebriate | make drunk (with alcoholic drinks) | |
| jaundice | affect with, or as if with, jaundice | |
| register | Enter into someone's consciousness | |
| relax, unstrain, unlax, loosen up, unwind, make relaxed | Cause to feel relaxed | |
| sedate, calm, tranquilize, tranquillize, tranquillise | Cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to | |
| stimulate, arouse, brace, energize, energise, perk up | Cause to be alert and energetic | |
| tense, strain, tense up | Cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious | |
| ulcerate | affect with an ulcer | |
| Broader | change, alter, modify | Cause to change |
| Spanish | afectar | |
| Catalan | afectar | |
| Meaning | Connect closely and often incriminatingly. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "This new ruling affects your business" | |
| Synonyms | involve, regard | |
| Narrower | implicate | Bring into intimate and incriminating connection |
| Broader | refer, pertain, relate, concern, come to, bear on, touch, touch on, have to do with | Be relevant to |
| Spanish | afectar, comprometer, implicar, influir, involucrar | |
| Catalan | afectar, comprometre, implicar, influir, involucrar | |
| Meaning | make believe with the intent to deceive / deceive. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE; Somebody ----s to INFINITIVE | |
| Synonyms | feign, sham, pretend, dissemble | |
| Narrower | mouth | articulate silently |
| play possum | To pretend / pretend to be dead | |
| take a dive | pretend / pretend to be knocked out, as of a boxer | |
| talk through one's hat, bullshit, bull, fake | Speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths | |
| Broader | misrepresent, belie | represent falsely |
| Similar to | make, pretend, make believe | represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like |
| Spanish | afectar, aparentar, fingir, pretender, simular | |
| Catalan | aparençar, aparentar, fingir, simular | |
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