From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Affect \Af*fect"\, verb (used with an object) [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.
As might affect the earth with cold heat. --Milton.
The climate affected their health and spirits. --Macaulay.
2. To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch.
A consideration of the rationale of our passions seems to me very necessary for all who would affect them upon solid and pure principles.
3. To love; to regard with affection. [Obs.]
As for Queen Katharine, he rather respected than affected, rather honored than loved, her. --Fuller.
4. To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually.
For he does neither affect company, nor is he fit for it, indeed. --Shak.
Do not affect the society of your inferiors in rank, nor court that of the great. --Hazlitt.
Men whom they thought best affected to religion and their country's liberty. --Milton.
6. To aim at; to aspire; to covet. [Obs.]
This proud man affects imperial ?way. --Dryden.
7. To tend to by affinity or disposition.
The drops of every fluid affect a round figure. --Newton.
8. To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance.
Careless she is with artful care, Affecting to seem unaffected. --Congreve.
Thou dost affect my manners. --Shak.
9. To assign; to appoint. [R.]
One of the domestics was affected to his special service. --Thackeray.
Syn: To influence; operate; act on; concern; move; melt; soften; subdue; overcome; pretend; assume.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Affecting \Af*fect"ing\, adjective
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. [Obs.]
A drawling; affecting rouge. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: arousing affect; "the homecoming of the released hostages was an affecting scene"; "poignant grief cannot endure forever"; "his gratitude was simple and touching" [syn: {poignant}, {touching}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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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