Noun
- 1. touch, touching, contact, impinging, striking
- usage: the event of something coming in contact with the body; "he longed for the touch of her hand"; "the cooling touch of the night air"
- 2. touch, sense of touch, skin senses, touch modality, cutaneous senses, somatosense, exteroception
- usage: the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands); "only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us"
- 3. touch, trace, ghost, suggestion, proposition, proffer
- usage: a suggestion of some quality; "there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone"; "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face"
- 4. touch, signature, manner, mode, style, way, fashion
- usage: a distinguishing style; "this room needs a woman's touch"
- 5. touch, touching, act, deed, human action, human activity
- usage: the act of putting two things together with no space between them; "at his touch the room filled with lights"
- 6. touch, hint, tinge, mite, pinch, jot, speck, soupcon, small indefinite quantity, small indefinite amount
- usage: a slight but appreciable amount; "this dish could use a touch of garlic"
- 7. contact, touch, communication, communicating
- usage: a communicative interaction; "the pilot made contact with the base"; "he got in touch with his colleagues"
- 8. touch, spot, attack
- usage: a slight attack of illness; "he has a touch of rheumatism"
- 9. touch, solicitation
- usage: the act of soliciting money (as a gift or loan); "he watched the beggar trying to make a touch"
- 10. touch, touch sensation, tactual sensation, tactile sensation, feeling, perception
- usage: the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin; "she likes the touch of silk on her skin"; "the surface had a greasy feeling"
- 11. touch, adeptness, adroitness, deftness, facility, quickness
- usage: deftness in handling matters; "he has a master's touch"
- 12. touch, tactile property, feel
- usage: the feel of mechanical action; "this piano has a wonderful touch"
Verb
- 1. touch
- usage: make physical contact with, come in contact with; "Touch the stone for good luck"; "She never touched her husband"
- 2. touch, perceive, comprehend
- usage: perceive via the tactile sense; "Helen Keller felt the physical world by touching people and objects around her"
- 3. touch, stir, affect, impress, move, strike
- usage: affect emotionally; "A stirring movie"; "I was touched by your kind letter of sympathy"
- 4. refer, pertain, relate, concern, come to, bear on, touch, touch on, have-to doe with
- usage: be relevant to; "There were lots of questions referring to her talk"; "My remark pertained to your earlier comments"
- 5. touch, adjoin, meet, contact
- usage: be in direct physical contact with; make contact; "The two buildings touch"; "Their hands touched"; "The wire must not contact the metal cover"; "The surfaces contact at this point"
- 6. affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch, change, alter, modify
- usage: have an effect upon; "Will the new rules affect me?"
- 7. touch, manage, deal, care, handle
- usage: deal with; usually used with a form of negation; "I wouldn't touch her with a ten-foot pole"; "The local Mafia won't touch gambling"
- 8. touch, touch
- usage: cause to be in brief contact with; "He touched his toes to the horse's flanks"
- 9. reach, extend to, touch, be
- usage: to extend as far as; "The sunlight reached the wall"; "Can he reach?" "The chair must not touch the wall"
- 10. equal, touch, rival, match, compete, vie, contend
- usage: be equal to in quality or ability; "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. touch, disturb, change, alter, modify
- usage: tamper with; "Don't touch my CDs!"
- 12. allude, touch, advert, hint, suggest
- usage: make a more or less disguised reference to; "He alluded to the problem but did not mention it"
- 13. touch, understand
- usage: comprehend; "He could not touch the meaning of the poem"
- 14. partake, touch, consume, ingest, take in, take, have
- usage: consume; "She didn't touch her food all night"
- 15. tint, tinct, tinge, touch, color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in
- usage: color lightly; "her greying hair was tinged blond"; "the leaves were tinged red in November"
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