affect

affect
verb
1 influence
ADVERB
dramatically, greatly, materially, radically (esp. BrE), significantly
positively
barely, hardly, not unduly

Sales did not seem unduly affected.

slightly
clearly
directly, indirectly
disproportionately
adversely, badly, negatively, seriously, severely
VERB + AFFECT
be likely to

developments that are likely to affect the environment

2 make sb sad/angry
ADVERB
deeply, profoundly

Her death affected him deeply.

Affect is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑ban, ↑bias, ↑change, ↑depression, ↑disaster, ↑disease, ↑disorder, ↑drought, ↑erosion, ↑factor, ↑gene, ↑illness, ↑influence, ↑injury, ↑issue, ↑mutation, ↑policy, ↑politics, ↑restriction, ↑syndrome, ↑tragedy, ↑violence
Affect is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ability, ↑accent, ↑balance, ↑behaviour, ↑business, ↑climate, ↑commerce, ↑coordination, ↑course, ↑decision, ↑development, ↑effectiveness, ↑election, ↑environment, ↑extent, ↑fate, ↑flow, ↑frequency, ↑growth, ↑health, ↑hearing, ↑joint, ↑likelihood, ↑livelihood, ↑mood, ↑morale, ↑nonchalance, ↑organ, ↑outcome, ↑perception, ↑performance, ↑practice, ↑preference, ↑probability, ↑process, ↑productivity, ↑quality, ↑recovery, ↑response, ↑result, ↑right, ↑situation, ↑success, ↑survival, ↑taste, ↑view, ↑well-being

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  • affect — simulate, *assume, pretend, feign, counterfeit, sham affect 1 Affect, influence, touch, impress, strike, sway are more or less closely synonymous when they mean to produce or to have an effect upon a person or upon a thing capable of a reaction.… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • 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 …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • affect — affect, effect 1. These two words are often confused. It should be remembered that effect is most common as a noun meaning ‘a result or consequence’ • (In England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever Oscar Wilde) and that affect… …   Modern English usage

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  • Affect — (v. lat.), schnell entstehende, lebhafte, ein bemerkliches Streben durch Aufhebung des Gleichgewichts im Gemüth hervorbringende, auf die Functionen des Geistes u. Körpers sichtbaren Einfluß habende Gemüthsbewegung. A. entsteht, wenn eine… …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

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