affect
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion
Types & categories
- feeling hypernym
Related & opposite
- impress derivation
- affectional derivation
Sense 2 verb
have an effect upon
Will the new rules affect me?
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- impingement derivation
- wallop derivation
Sense 3 verb
act physically on; have an effect upon
the medicine affects my heart rate
Types & categories
Sense 4 verb
connect closely and often incriminatingly
This new ruling affects your business
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- regard derivation
- involvement derivation
Sense 5 verb
make believe with the intent to deceive
He feigned that he was ill
Types & categories
- misrepresent hypernym
- play possum hyponym
- take a dive hyponym
- bullshit hyponym
- mouth hyponym
Related & opposite
- pretense derivation
- fake derivation
- dissembling derivation
- hypocrite derivation
- role player derivation
- shammer derivation
- make believe verb group
Sense 6 verb
have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
This child impressed me as unusually mature
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- feel causes
- affect derivation
- impressive derivation
- affectional derivation
- impressive derivation
- impressionable derivation
- prompt verb group
- come to verb group
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | impress |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | affectional |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | feeling |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | impingement |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | wallop |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | strike a blow |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | repercuss |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | tell on |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | redound |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | stimulate |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | process |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | hydrolize |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | tinge |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | peril |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | hit |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | subject |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | inconvenience |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | influence |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | slam-dunk |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | attack |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | ulcerate |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | sedate |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | energize |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | tense up |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | unstrain |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | cramp |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | jaundice |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | register |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | inebriate |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | regard |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | involvement |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | concern |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | implicate |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | pretense |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | fake |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | dissembling |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | hypocrite |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | role player |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | shammer |
| 5 | verb group | Related & opposite | make believe |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | misrepresent |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | play possum |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | take a dive |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | bullshit |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | mouth |
| 6 | causes | Related & opposite | feel |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | affect |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | impressive |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | affectional |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | impressive |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | impressionable |
| 6 | verb group | Related & opposite | prompt |
| 6 | verb group | Related & opposite | come to |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | infect |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | surprise |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | ingrain |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | awaken |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | engrave |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | strike dumb |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | zap |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | jar |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | hit home |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | smite |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | cloud |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | pierce |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | impress |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | sweep off |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | trouble |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | touch |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | move |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | sadden |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | alienate |