touch a chord

1. 1.

   evoke a reaction, response, or emotion

   “this writer strikes a chord with young women”

   “The storyteller touched a chord”

   Synonymsstrike a chord

   Broaderarouse

Questions about touch a chord

What does touch a chord mean?

touch a chord means "evoke a reaction, response, or emotion".

What is another word for touch a chord?

Close synonyms include strike a chord. 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 touch a chord a common word?

touch a chord 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.