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touching adjective [ ˈtʌtʃɪŋ ]

• arousing feelings of sympathy or gratitude.
• "your loyalty is very touching"
Similar: moving, affecting, stirring, warming, heart-warming, impressive, poignant, upsetting, saddening, pitiful, piteous, pathetic, plaintive, heartbreaking, heart-rending, tear-jerking, tragic, disturbing, evocative, emotive, emotional, tender, sentimental,
Opposite: hard-headed,

touching preposition

• concerning; about.
• "discoveries touching the neglected traditions of the London Boroughs"
Origin: late Middle English (as a preposition): from French touchant, present participle of toucher ‘to touch’; the adjective (early 16th century) is from touch + -ing2.

touch verb

• come into or be in contact with.
• "he leaned back so that only two legs of his chair touched the floor"
Similar: be in contact (with), come into contact (with), come together (with), meet, join, connect, converge (with), be contiguous (with), border (on), be (up) against, link up (with), adjoin, abut, neighbour,
• handle in order to interfere with, alter, or otherwise affect.
• "I didn't play her records or touch any of her stuff"
Similar: handle, hold, pick up, move, meddle with, play (about/around) with, toy with, fiddle with, interfere with, tamper with, disturb, harm, lay a hand on, lay a finger on, use, employ, make use of, put to use, have access to, access, avail oneself of, get (at), take advantage of,
• affect or concern.
• "a tenth of state companies have been touched by privatization"
Similar: affect, have an effect on, concern, involve, have a bearing on, be relevant to, be pertinent to,
• produce feelings of affection, gratitude, or sympathy in.
• "she was touched by her friend's loyalty"
Similar: affect, move, stir, arouse, make/leave an impression on, impress, have an impact on, have an effect on, influence, impassion, upset, disturb, make sad, arouse sympathy, melt, soften, get (to), affected, softened, moved, stirred, swayed, aroused, impressed, influenced, warmed, impassioned, disturbed, distressed,
Opposite: unmoved, unimpressed,
• reach (a specified level or amount).
• "sales touched twenty grand last year"
Similar: reach, attain, arrive at, come to, make, get up to, rise to, soar to, get down to, sink to, plummet to, dive to, hit,
Origin: Middle English: the verb from Old French tochier, probably from a Romance word of imitative origin; the noun originally from Old French touche, later (in certain senses) directly from the verb.

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