affecting
Touching the heart
Affecting means emotionally moving or touching.
Something affecting stirs feelings of tenderness, sympathy, or sadness: an affecting tribute to her late father, The final scene was deeply affecting.
The word suggests a gentle emotional impact rather than overwhelming force—affecting moments touch the heart without necessarily bringing you to tears.
Emotionally affecting
- touchingEvoking gentle emotion
- stirringArousing strong emotion
- poignantEvoking keen emotion
- heartfeltDeeply and sincerely meant
tear-jerking · evocative · emotive · powerful · profound · sentimental · bittersweet · wrenching
Able to persuade
- compellingPowerfully engaging or persuasive
- eloquentFluent and persuasive
- articulateExpress clearly, or well-spoken
- cogentClearly logical and convincing
forceful · effective · reasoned · influential · credible · assertive · winning over · swaying
Altering someone's thinking
- swayingRhythmic lateral movement
- controllingExerting authority over others
- exploitingUsing selfishly for benefit
- coercingForcing through intimidation
pressuring · calculating · scheming · conniving · underhanded · insidious · devious · guileful
Including as part
- regardingOn the subject of
- pertaining toRelating to a subject
- impactingProducing an effect on
- bearing onHaving relevance to
moving
Emotionally affecting
heartfelt · tear-jerking · evocative · emotive · powerful · profound · sentimental · bittersweet · wrenching · gut-wrenching
convincing
Able to persuade
- compellingPowerfully engaging or persuasive
- eloquentFluent and persuasive
- articulateExpress clearly, or well-spoken
cogent · forceful · effective · reasoned · influential · credible · assertive · winning over · swaying · engaging
influencing
Altering someone's thinking
- swayingRhythmic lateral movement
- controllingExerting authority over others
- exploitingUsing selfishly for benefit
coercing · pressuring · calculating · scheming · conniving · underhanded · insidious · devious · guileful · crafty
involving
Including as part
- regardingOn the subject of
- pertaining toRelating to a subject
- impactingProducing an effect on
- heartwarmingfeel-good, touching, heartfelt, uplifting, tender
- sentimentalitymawkish, schmaltzy, saccharine, treacly, cloying
- actingacting, act, performing, playacting, actor
- deceptionlie, lies, lying, fake, fraud
- exhaustingdraining, taxing, tiring, exhausting, fatiguing
- movingmoving, moving truck, move out, move in, movers
affectingunmoving
Lacking any motion
unemotional · unmoved · emotionless · uninspiring · flat
affectingmawkish
Unpleasantly overemotional
saccharine · manipulative · sentimental · cloying · treacly
- public display of affectionRomantic acts in open
- deep affectionIntense emotional attachment
- motherly affectionTender care from one's female parent
- withholding affectionDeliberately denying emotional warmth
- public affectionRomantic display among strangers
- seasonal affective disorderLight-linked recurring depression
affection, affectionate, disaffection, affections, affective