Affecting
Affecting adjective - Having the power to affect the feelings or sympathies.
Usage example: the affecting final scene in the play, when the children are reunited with their father
Impactful and affecting are semantically related In some cases you can use "Impactful" instead an adjective "Affecting".
Impactful
Impactful adjective - Having the power to affect the feelings or sympathies.
Usage example: an impactful story of love and redemption
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- moving and affecting
- moving and impactful
- emotional and affecting
- emotional and impactful
- expressive and affecting
- expressive and impactful
- effective and affecting
- effective and impactful
- impressive and affecting
- impressive and impactful
- provoking and affecting
- provoking and impactful
- poignant and affecting
- poignant and impactful
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