touch up

1. 1.

   alter so as to produce a more desirable appearance

   “This photograph has been retouched!”

   Synonymsretouch

   Broaderenhance

   photography

Questions about touch up

What does touch up mean?

touch up means "alter so as to produce a more desirable appearance".

What is another word for touch up?

Close synonyms include retouch. 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 up a common word?

touch up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.