Definition of affects

"affects" in the noun sense

1. affect

the conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion

"affects" in the verb sense

1. affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch

have an effect upon

"Will the new rules affect me?"

2. affect

act physically on have an effect upon

"the medicine affects my heart rate"

3. involve, affect, regard

connect closely and often incriminatingly

"This new ruling affects your business"

4. feign, sham, pretend, affect, dissemble

make believe with the intent to deceive

"He feigned that he was ill"

"He shammed a headache"

5. affect, impress, move, strike

have an emotional or cognitive impact upon

"This child impressed me as unusually mature"

"This behavior struck me as odd"

"he was dumb-struck by the news"

"her comments struck a sour note"

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Quotations for affects

The nature of bad news affects the teller. [ William Shakespeare ]

A great man is one who affects the mind of his generation. [ Beaconsfield ]

The more honest a man is, the less he affects the air of a saint. [ Lavater ]

Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

May no good Christian ever see an ugly woman that affects niceness. [ Proverb ]

Luck affects everything; let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it, there will be a fish. [ Ovid ]

Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions. [ Macaulay ]

A wound from a tongue is worse than a wound from the sword; the latter affects only the body - the former, the spirit, the soul. [ Pythagoras ]

The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint. The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety. [ Lavater ]

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession. [ Henry Home ]

There is a magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no hearts. [ Beaconsfield ]

Academical years ought by rights to give occupation to the whole mind. It is this time which, well or ill employed, affects a man's whole after-life. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Man is the will and woman is the sentiment. In this ship of humanity, Will is the rudder and Sentiment the sail; when woman affects to steer, the rudder is only a masked sail. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The stoical exemption which philosophy affects to give us over the pains and vexations of human life is as imaginary as the state of mystical quietism and perfection aimed at by some crazy enthusiast. [ Scott ]

Nothing affects the heart like that which is purely from itself, and of its own nature; such as the beauty of sentiments, the grace of actions, the turn of characters, and the proportions and features of a human mind. [ Shaftesbury ]

The wisest of us must, for by far the most part, judge like the simplest; estimate importance by mere magnitude, and expect that which strongly affects our own generation, will strongly affect those that are to follow. [ Carlyle ]

Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire; we are attracted by the idea that this shell is only a beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering. [ Jane Porter ]

affects in Scrabble®

The word affects is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 15

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters affects:

AFFECTS
(110 = 60 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word affects

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In affects

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affects in Words With Friends™

The word affects is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 16

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters affects:

AFFECTS
(113 = 78 + 35)
AFFECTS
(113 = 78 + 35)
AFFECTS
(113 = 78 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

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All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word affects

AFFECTS
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In affects

AFFECTS
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