2. Concern, interest, regard, relate to, bear upon.
3. Touch, move, impress, melt, subdue, overcome, pierce.
4. Crave, yearn for, aspire to, aim at.
5. Assume, feign, arrogate, put on, make a show of, pretend to.
Affectation, n. Pretension, airs, affectedness, mannerism, assumed manners, affected manner.
Affected, a. 1. Assumed, feigned, unnatural, artificial, insincere, canting.
2. Assuming, pretending, pretentious, conceited, vain, coxcomical, priggish.
Affectedness, n. Affectation.
Affecting, a. Moving, touching, pathetic, impressive.
Affection, n. 1. Feeling, passion, inclination, propensity, bent, bias, turn of mind, cast or frame of mind.
2. Attribute, quality, property, accident, modification, mode.
3. Love, heart, attachment, kindness, partiality, fondness, liking, tenderness, endearment, regard, good-will, tender passion.
4. (Med.) Disorder, malady, disease.
Affectionate, a. Loving, fond, attached, devoted, warm, tender, kind, sympathetic, tender-hearted, warm-hearted.
Affiance, v. a. Betroth, engage.
Affidavit, n. Testimony (in writing, signed and sworn to before a magistrate, but given without cross-examination), evidence, deposition.
Affiliate, v. a. 1. Adopt, treat as one's own child.
2. Connect, associate, unite, join, bring into close relation.
Affinity, n. 1. Relationship (by marriage), kin, consanguinity, propinquity.
2. Resemblance, likeness, relation, correlation, analogy, connection, similarity, similitude, parallelism, correspondence, parity, sympathy.
3. (Chem.) Attraction.
Affirm, v. a. 1. Declare, aver, assert, maintain, asseverate, avouch, vouch, allege, say, profess, protest, pronounce, predicate.
2. Confirm, ratify, approve, establish.
Affirm, v. n. Assert, declare, aver, say, state, swear, testify, depose, bear witness.
Affirmable, a. Predicable.
Affirmation, n. Assertion, declaration, asseveration, word, averment, protestation, avowal, predication, testimony, deposition.
Affirmative, a. 1. That affirms.
2. Indicative.
3. (Alg.) Positive, not negative.
Affix, v. a. Join, subjoin, annex, attach, connect, set to, unite to the end.
Affix, n. Postfix, suffix.
Afflatus, n. Inspiration, supernatural influence.
Afflict, v. a. Grieve, distress, trouble, torment, agonize, plague, pain, hurt, harass, wound, exercise, grind, persecute, smite, make sorrowful.