tactile

Speech parts

1. tactile - Adjective

2. tactile - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of or pertaining to the organs, or the sense, of touch; perceiving, or perceptible, by the touch; capable of being touched; as, tactile corpuscles; tactile sensations.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

tactual haptic corporal material physical real clear sonic actual external solid substantial concrete sure touch
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Antonyms

airy spiritual abstract invisible ardent intangible
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Phrases with the word

tactile art tactile organs tactile sensation tactile property tactile organ tactile corpuscle

Anagrams

lattice talcite

Examples

The geometry of Tlön comprises two somewhat different disciplines: the visual and the tactile. The latter corresponds to our own geometry and is subordinated to the first. Jorge Luis Borges

I started above all by producing still-lives because in nature there is a tactile space, I would say almost manual. Georges Braque

Tactile space separates us from objects, as opposed to visual space, which separates objects from one another. I have spent my life trying to paint the former kind. Georges Braque

All our steps in creating or absorbing material of the record proceed through one of the senses - the tactile when we touch keys, the oral when we speak or listen, the visual when we read. Is it not possible that some day the path may be established more directly? Vannevar Bush

Color is not so much a visual as a tactile medium. Marshall McLuhan

Chinese script is not visual but iconic and tactile. It does not disturb the tribal bonds. Marshall McLuhan

Close letter words and terms

tacticool tactics tactics RPG tactile agnosia tactile art tactile cell