Affecting

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Inspiring or capable of inspiring strong emotion; moving. See Synonyms at moving.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Producing strong feelings and emotions.
  • v. Present participle of affect.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Moving the emotions; fitted to excite the emotions; pathetic; touching
  • adj. Affected; given to false show.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Loving; affectionate.
  • Using affectation; affected.
  • Having power to excite or move the feelings; tending to move the affections; pathetic: as, an affecting spectacle; an affecting speech.
  • Synonyms Moving, touching, impressive, stirring.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. arousing affect
  • Equivalent
    moving   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    pathetic    touching    affected    moving    impressive   
    Verb Stem
    affect   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound