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affecting

adjectiveverbattested in dialogue

  • //əˈfɛktɪŋ//

Producing or causing strong feelings and emotions.

adjective

  1. 1

    Producing or causing strong feelings and emotions.

    Within this sphere, then, the reader is allowed to follow Hull's growth both as an individual and as a poet. She moves from pieces that are affecting, though merely descriptive, to "conversations," and finally, to strong affirmations spoken in the first person.

    The moment when Tyrion firmly grabs his friend’s arm just before Dany utters the cue for Drogon to burn the eunuch alive is affecting, because it conveys both how much Tyrion cares for his friend, and also how much this is costing him.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of affectpresent participle and gerund of affect

Forms

comparative
more affecting
superlative
most affecting
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).