affect¹ /ə-fektˈ/

1. To act upon
2. To infect or attack as or like a disease
3. To influence
4. To move the feelings of
5. (in passive only) to assign or allot

1. The emotion that lies behind action (psychology)
2. Pleasantness or unpleasantness of, or complex of ideas involved in, an emotional state (psychology)
3. Disposition of body or mind (obsolete)
4. Affection or love (obsolete)

affectˈed adjective

affectˈing adjective

Having power to move the emotions

affectˈingly adverb

affectˈive adjective

Of, arising from or influencing emotion

affectˈively adverb

• loof
• loofa
• loofah
• loofahs
• loofful
• looffuls
• loofs
• looing
• look
• look after
• look a gift horse in the mouth
• lookalike
• lookalikes
• look alive
• look and say
• look-and-say
• look as if butter wouldn't melt in one's mouth
• look askance
• look awry
• look daggers
• look down on
• look down one's nose at
• looked
• looker
• looker-on