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affecting 音標拼音: [əf'ɛktɪŋ] a. 感人的,動人的 感人的,動人的 affecting影響 affecting adj 1: arousing affect; " the homecoming of the released hostages was an affecting scene"; " poignant grief cannot endure forever"; " his gratitude was simple and touching" [ synonym: { affecting}, { poignant}, { touching}] Affect \ Af* fect"\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Affected}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Affecting}.] [ L. affectus, p. p. of afficere to affect by active agency; ad facere to make: cf. F. affectere, L. affectare, freq. of afficere. See { Fact}.] 1. To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon. [ 1913 Webster] As might affect the earth with cold heat. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] The climate affected their health and spirits. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch. [ 1913 Webster] A consideration of the rationale of our passions seems to me very necessary for all who would affect them upon solid and pure principles. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To love; to regard with affection. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] As for Queen Katharine, he rather respected than affected, rather honored than loved, her. -- Fuller. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually. [ 1913 Webster] For he does neither affect company, nor is he fit for it, indeed. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Do not affect the society of your inferiors in rank, nor court that of the great. -- Hazlitt. [ 1913 Webster] 5. To dispose or incline. [ 1913 Webster] Men whom they thought best affected to religion and their country' s liberty. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 6. To aim at; to aspire; to covet. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] This proud man affects imperial ? way. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 7. To tend to by affinity or disposition. [ 1913 Webster] The drops of every fluid affect a round figure. -- Newton. [ 1913 Webster] 8. To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance. [ 1913 Webster] Careless she is with artful care, Affecting to seem unaffected. -- Congreve. [ 1913 Webster] Thou dost affect my manners. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 9. To assign; to appoint. [ R.] [ 1913 Webster] One of the domestics was affected to his special service. -- Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: To influence; operate; act on; concern; move; melt; soften; subdue; overcome; pretend; assume. [ 1913 Webster]
Affecting \ Af* fect" ing\, a. 1. Moving the emotions; fitted to excite the emotions; pathetic; touching; as, an affecting address; an affecting sight. [ 1913 Webster] The most affecting music is generally the most simple. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Affected; given to false show. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] A drawling; affecting rouge. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 46 Moby Thesaurus words for " affecting": afflictive, bitter, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, deplorable, depressing, depressive, discomforting, dismal, dismaying, distressful, distressing, disturbing, doleful, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, dreary, emotive, grievous, heartrending, impressive, joyless, lamentable, mournful, moving, painful, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poignant, regrettable, rueful, sad, saddening, sharp, sore, sorrowful, touching, troubling, uncomfortable, woebegone, woeful, wretched
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