Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Emotionally affected; moved: very touched by the stranger's kindness.
- adj. Somewhat demented or mentally unbalanced.
Wiktionary
- adj. Emotionally moved (by), made to feel emotion (by).
- adj. Slightly mentally deficient; touched in the head.
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of touch.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion
- adj. slightly insane
- adj. having come into contact
Examples
“First Relay to see that all children actually _walk_; no running; when hands are to be touched, they _must be touched_; when erasers or handkerchiefs are dropped, they must be picked up by the ones who dropped them before proceeding with the game; if to be exchanged, they must be exchanged.”
“They use the phrase "touched by the sun" whenever they discuss skin tone.”
The Washington Post: Backstage at Washington Shakespeare Company's 'Juno and the Paycock'
“I picked up the second one on a whim, since it was next to Gura's book and the title touched upon my need to know how exactly the French philosopher's did influence the ideas of at least a couple Transcendentalists.”
My Passive Aggressive Relationship with Research and my Bachelors Project
“The title touched on one of my pet peeves: the equation of 'baseball' with 'major league 'baseball'.”
“His name touched the fringes of his thoughts and he was immediately alert.”
“Mr. Obama's deliberate use of the phrase touched off a furor, even if the basic outlines of a peace settlement remain unchanged.”
“The soft beauty of the Latin word touched with an enchanting touch the dark of the evening, with a touch fainter and more persuading than the touch of music or of a woman's hand.”
“Palin touched a visible nerve with the American gun-owning community so that opposition leaders took notice.”
“Where her skin touched the floor, flowers sprouted.”
“Sarah Palin touched on a host of topics — including Reaganomics, China and human rights, Tibet, the Asian and U.S. economies, family and moose in Alaska — as she delivered a speech to investors Wednesday in Hong Kong, according to audience members.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘touched’.
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
Laban, circumcise, beget, Esau, Rebekah, speckle, Sodom, Pharaoh, Canaanite, Canaan, Jacob, Lot and 1286 more...
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Bonkers
List for old and new terms and phrases meaning crazy, nuts, batty, prone to extreme nervousness, etc.
bonkers, crazy, nuts, batty, batchy, bats in the belfry, scatty, crackers, windy, gone crackers, cracked, dingo and 92 more...
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Mots Fous
Describing the demented--as colorfully as possible.
bats in the belfry, out to lunch, daft, stark ravin' mad, unsound, barmy, nuts but nuts, barking, touched, cracked, doolally, potty and 22 more...
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Mentally irregular
Words for the mentally irregular
bonkers, unhinged, batshit crazy, cognitive dissonance, apophenia, undone, loony, unsound, deranged, a bit off the beam, daft, stark ravin' mad and 65 more...
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Bonkers
crackers, barmy, half-baked, mental, unhinged, barking, cuckoo, cracked, nuts, mad, insane, touched and 24 more...
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Best words in Beatles songs
kaleidoscope, plasticine, porters, tangerine, marmalade, cellophane, turnstile, marshmallow, lingers, slither, restless, limitless and 91 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Aussie Rules
afl, sanfl, mark, behind, vfl, sydney swans, st kilda saints, collingwood magpies, brisbane lions, western bulldogs, melbourne demons, carlton blues and 91 more...
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Beknownst1981's list
I love words, especially the ones I make up with my friends.
translucent meat ..., beknownst (knew), plethora, curmudgeon, wanderlust, actually, differentiate, bearded, hobbit feet, female, sexy time, librarian and 220 more...
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feeling words
twitterpated, loquacious, ambiguous, pensive, sluggish, anxious, adventurous, curious, abandoned, absent-minded, abrasive, abused and 653 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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jmjarmstrong's list
Words that I used to know.
geloscopy, hunker, willy nilly, harum scarum, whacko, meh, nork, misunderestimate, atrabiliousness, luftmensch, auxanometer, hyperhedonia and 1948 more...
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words that make me happy
christmas, kate, glitter, sparkle, ice, icicle, snow, polar, aurora borealis, northern lights, skylight, fairy lights and 71 more...
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loonie
Inspired by Peter Reading's "Euphemisms".
crackers, potty, loony, bonkers, nutty, screwy, ga-ga, dull, strange, do-lally, dopey, silly and 83 more...
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pecane's list
nice barnie shore last least mist cannonize sharpwitz frogs you been dandy lusty gray peter tangible earthy down mangoe bitter north yikes mighty bitten dwarf landing gorge george thatcher
deodorant, touched, beep, shatter, matched, seldom, sovreign, sordid, memories, beacon, melted, silvery and 5 more...
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jmjarmstrong JM is very touched by his new felt coat. Aug 12, 2011