DICTOMETER

TOUCHED

1. Synonyms:
   • Touch
   Definitions:
   • make physical contact with, come in contact with
   Examples:
   • Touch the stone for good luck
   • She never touched her husband
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Touch
   Definitions:
   • perceive via the tactile sense
   Examples:
   • Helen Keller felt the physical world by touching people and objects around her
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Touch
   • Stir
   Definitions:
   • affect emotionally
   Examples:
   • A stirring movie
   • I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Refer
   • Pertain
   • Relate
   • Concern
   • Come to
   • Bear on
   • Touch
   • Touch on
   • Have-to doe with
   Definitions:
   • be relevant to
   Examples:
   • There were lots of questions referring to her talk
   • My remark pertained to your earlier comments
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Touch
   • Adjoin
   • Meet
   • Contact
   Definitions:
   • be in direct physical contact with
   • make contact
   Examples:
   • The two buildings touch
   • Their hands touched
   • The wire must not contact the metal cover
   • The surfaces contact at this point
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Affect
   • Impact
   • Bear upon
   • Bear on
   • Touch on
   • Touch
   Definitions:
   • have an effect upon
   Examples:
   • Will the new rules affect me?
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Touch
   Definitions:
   • deal with
   • usually used with a form of negation
   Examples:
   • I wouldn't touch her with a ten-foot pole
   • The local Mafia won't touch gambling
   
   
8. Synonyms:
   • Touch
   Definitions:
   • cause to be in brief contact with
   Examples:
   • He touched his toes to the horse's flanks
   
   
9. Synonyms:
   • Reach
   • Extend to
   • Touch
   Definitions:
   • to extend as far as
   Examples:
   • The sunlight reached the wall
   • Can he reach? The chair must not touch the wall
   
   
10. Synonyms:
    • Equal
    • Touch
    • Rival
    • Match
    Definitions:
    • be equal to in quality or ability
    Examples:
    • Nothing can rival cotton for durability
    • Your performance doesn't even touch that of your colleagues
    • Her persistence and ambition only matches that of her parents
    
    
11. Synonyms:
    • Touch
    • Disturb
    Definitions:
    • tamper with
    Examples:
    • Don't touch my CDs!
    
    
12. Synonyms:
    • Allude
    • Touch
    • Advert
    Definitions:
    • make a more or less disguised reference to
    Examples:
    • He alluded to the problem but did not mention it
    
    
13. Synonyms:
    • Touch
    Definitions:
    • comprehend
    Examples:
    • He could not touch the meaning of the poem
    
    
14. Synonyms:
    • Partake
    • Touch
    Definitions:
    • consume
    Examples:
    • She didn't touch her food all night
    
    
15. Synonyms:
    • Tint
    • Tinct
    • Tinge
    • Touch
    Definitions:
    • color lightly
    Examples:
    • Her greying hair was tinged blond
    • The leaves were tinged red in November
    
    

1. Synonyms:
   • Touched
   Definitions:
   • having come into contact
   Antonyms:
   • UNTOUCHED
   
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Moved
   • Affected
   • Stirred
   • Touched
   Definitions:
   • being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion
   Examples:
   • Too moved to speak
   • Very touched by the stranger's kindness
   Antonyms:
   • ED(PREDICATE)
   
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Fey
   • Touched
   Definitions:
   • slightly insane
   Antonyms:
   • Sane