Word Meanings - AFFECTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Moving the emotions; fitted to excite the emotions; pathetic; touching; as, an affecting address; an affecting sight. The most affecting music is generally the most simple. 2. Affected; given to false show. A drawling; affecting rouge. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AFFECTING)

• Impressive
• Forcible
• solemn
• affecting
• imposing
• important
• Pathetic
• Affecting
• moving
• emotional
• tender
• melting
• Piteous
• Sad
• miserable
• deplorable
• lamentable
• distressing
• doleful
• pitiable
• mournful
• woful
• sorrowful
• Thrilling
• Arousing
• stirring
• exciting
• pleasing

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of AFFECTING)

• Withhold
• withdraw
• retain
• appropriate

Related words: (words related to AFFECTING)

• TENDER
  A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
• IMPOSABLE
  Capable of being imposed or laid on. Hammond.
• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• SOLEMNIZATION
  The act of solemnizing; celebration; as, the solemnization of a marriage.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• MOVER
  1. A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place. 2. A person or thing that imparts motion, or causes change of place; a motor. 3. One who, or that which, excites, instigates, or causes movement, change, etc.; as, movers of sedition. These
• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• SOLEMNIZE
  1. To perform with solemn or ritual ceremonies, or according to legal forms. Baptism to be administered in one place, and marriage solemnized in another. Hooker. 2. To dignify or honor by ceremonies; to celebrate. Their choice nobility and flowers
• MOVELESS
  Motionless; fixed. "Moveless as a tower." Pope.
• MOURNFUL
  Full of sorrow; expressing, or intended to express, sorrow; mourning; grieving; sad; also, causing sorrow; saddening; grievous; as, a mournful person; mournful looks, tones, loss. -- Mourn"ful*ly, adv. -- Mourn"ful*ness, n. Syn. -- Sorrowful;
• MISERABLENESS
  The state or quality of being miserable.
• SOLEMN
  Made in form; ceremonious; as, solemn war; conforming with all legal requirements; as, probate in solemn form. Burrill. Jarman. Greenleaf. Solemn League and Covenant. See Covenant, 2. Syn. -- Grave; formal; ritual; ceremonial; sober; serious;
• EXCITABLE
  Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.
• TENDERLY
  In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer.
• MISERABLE
  1. Very unhappy; wretched. What hopes delude thee, miserable man Dryden. 2. Causing unhappiness or misery. What 's more miserable than discontent Shak. 3. Worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a miserable dinner. Miserable comforters
• EXCITING
  Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting story. -- Ex*cit"ing*ly, adv. Exciting causes , those which immediately produce disease, or those which excite the action of predisposing causes.
• TENDERNESS
  The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
• AFFECTION
  Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
• SOLEMNIZATE
  To solemnize; as, to solemnizate matrimony. Bp. Burnet.
• MOVABLE
  1. Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine. 2. Changing from one time to another; as, movable
• BARBAROUS
  slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous
• PURPURIPAROUS
  Producing, or connected with, a purple-colored secretion; as, the purpuriparous gland of certain gastropods.
• SYMPATHETIC
  1. Inclined to sympathy; sympathizing. Far wiser he, whose sympathetic mind Exults in all the good of all mankind. Goldsmith. 2. Produced by, or expressive of, sympathy. Ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears. Gray. Produced by sympathy; --
• SEBIPAROUS
  See SEBIFEROUS
• ENMOVE
  See EMMOVE
• OVERAFFECT
  To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
• MISAFFECT
  To dislike.
• PROMOVE
  To move forward; to advance; to promote. Bp. Fell.