touching

Speech parts

1. touching - Noun

2. touching - Adjective

3. touching - Verb

4. touching - Preposition

6. touching - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Touch

Affecting; moving; pathetic; as, a touching tale.

Concerning; with respect to.

The sense or act of feeling; touch.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

about moving emotional affecting sad poignant as for play near playing apropos caress reach contact affected

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Antonyms

around despite stoic beyond cold apart

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Hypernyms

act contact deed impinging human action human activity

Hyponyms

buss pat stroke dab hit contact

Phrases with the word

touching base heart-touching touching on touching-up touching off abstain from touching

Anagrams

ungothic

Examples

There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us and completely outside the province of science. Carl Friedrich Gauss

The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching. Yoshida Kenkō

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment. Warren Bennis

A person with a wound on his head keeps touching it. Egyptian Proverb

Touching the earth equates to having harmony with nature. Native American Proverb

The sky is wide enough for two birds to fly without their wings touching. African Proverb

Close letter words and terms

touchiest touchily touchiness touching ball touching base touching distance