touching

1. 1.

   arousing affect

   “the homecoming of the released hostages was an affecting scene”

   “poignant grief cannot endure forever”

   “his gratitude was simple and touching”

   Synonymsaffectingpoignant

   Similarmoving

Other forms of touching

plural

touchings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about touching

What does touching mean?

touching means "the event of something coming in contact with the body". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in touching?

touching has 2 syllables: touc-hing. The stress falls on "touc". In IPA it is /ˈtʌtʃɪŋ/.

What is another word for touching?

Close synonyms include touch, touch, affecting, poignant. 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 touching a common word?

touching is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.