light touch

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   momentary contact

   Synonymsbrush

   Broadertouch

Questions about light touch

What does light touch mean?

light touch means "momentary contact".

What is another word for light touch?

Close synonyms include brush. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is light touch a common word?

light touch is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.