'affair' definitions:
Definition of 'affair'
From: WordNet
noun
A vaguely specified concern; "several matters to attend to"; "it is none of your affair"; "things are going well" [syn: matter, affair, thing]
noun
A usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship [syn: affair, affaire, intimacy, liaison, involvement, amour]
noun
A vaguely specified social event; "the party was quite an affair"; "an occasion arranged to honor the president"; "a seemingly endless round of social functions" [syn: affair, occasion, social occasion, function, social function]
Synonyms of 'affair'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- activities,
- activity,
- adulterous affair,
- adultery,
- affairs,
- amor,
- amour,
- article,
- artifact,
- at home,
- attempt,
- bag,
- beeswax,
- business,
- care,
- commerce,
- commitment,
- concern,
- concernment,
- contract,
- cuckoldry,
- cup of tea,
- deal,
- dingus,
- dofunny,
- dohickey,
- doing,
- dojigger,
- dojiggy,
- domajig,
- domajigger,
- doodad,
- dowhacky,
- effort,
- employ,
- employment,
- engagement,
- entanglement,
- enterprise,
- eppes,
- eternal triangle,
- etwas,
- event,
- fling,
- flirtation,
- flumadiddle,
- forbidden love,
- function,
- gadget,
- gathering,
- get-together,
- gigamaree,
- gimmick,
- gizmo,
- hanky-panky,
- happening,
- hickey,
- hootenanny,
- hootmalalie,
- illicit love,
- incident,
- infidelity,
- interest,
- intrigue,
- issue,
- jigger,
- job,
- labor,
- levee,
- liaison,
- lookout,
- love,
- love affair,
- material thing,
- matinee,
- matter,
- object,
- obligation,
- occasions,
- occupation,
- occurrence,
- operation,
- palaver,
- pie,
- plan,
- proceeding,
- program,
- project,
- proposition,
- quelque chose,
- reception,
- relationship,
- responsibility,
- reunion,
- romance,
- romantic tie,
- salon,
- service,
- sociable,
- social,
- social affair,
- social gathering,
- soiree,
- something,
- task,
- thing,
- thingum,
- thingumabob,
- thingumadad,
- thingumadoodle,
- thingumajig,
- thingumajigger,
- thingumaree,
- thingummy,
- topic,
- transaction,
- triangle,
- undertaking,
- unfaithfulness,
- venture,
- wake,
- whatchy,
- widget,
- work
Words containing 'affair'
- affaire,
- affairs,
- Affair of honor,
- foreign affairs,
- gala affair,
- international affairs,
- love affair,
- man of affairs,
- social affair,
- state of affairs,
- world affairs,
- Self-affairs,
- affaire d'honneur,
- charge d'affaires,
- department of veterans affairs,
- master in public affairs,
- secretary of veterans affairs,
- Charg'e d'affaires,
- Charg'es d'affaires