Touched

Definition: Touched

Touched

Adjective

1. Emotionally affected; "very touched by the stranger's kindness".

2. Being colored slightly; sometimes used in combination; "white petals touched with pink"; "the resplendent sun-touched flag"; "pink-tinged apple blossoms".

3. Having come into contact.

4. Slightly insane.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "touched" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Touched

Disease

Touched in the wind, broken-winded, spavined, gasping; hors de combat; (useless).

Feeling

Impressed with, moved with, touched with, affected with, penetrated with, seized with, imbued with; devoured by; wrought up; (excited); struck all of a heap; rapt; in a quiver; Noun: enraptured.

Insanity

Mad as a March hare, mad as a hatter; of unsound mind; Noun: touched in one's head, wrong in one's head, not right in one's head, not in one's right mind, not right in one's wits, upper story; out of one's mind, out of one's wits, out of one's skull, far gone, out of one's senses, out of one's wits; not in one's right mind.

Adjective: insane, mad, lunatic,loony; crazy, crazed, aliene, non compos mentis; not right, cracked, touched; bereft of reason; all possessed, unhinged, unsettled in one's mind; insensate, reasonless, beside oneself, demented, daft; phrenzied, frenzied, frenetic; possessed, possessed with a devil; deranged, maddened, moonstruck; mad-brained, scatter brained, shatter brained, crackbrained; touched, tetched; off one's head.

Insensibility

Adverb: insensibly; Adjective: aequo animo; without being moved, without being touched, without being impressed; in cold blood; with dry eyes, with withers unwrung.

Pity

Adjective: pitying; Verb: pitiful, compassionate, sympathetic, touched.

Uncleanness

Decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty; putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied; saprogenic, saprogenous; purulent, carious, peccant; fecal, feculent; stercoraceous, scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous; gory, bloody; rotting; Verb: rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese.

Crosswords: Touched

I haven't even touched you yet and you're turning into the Sears Tower (American Pie 2; writing credit: Adam Herz; David H. Steinberg)

He's got the Midas touch, but he touched it too much (Austin Powers in Goldmember; writing credit: Mike Myers)

When I touched him, he pulled away (Rain Man; writing credit: Ronald Bass)

Crystal. Colonel, I just have one final question before I put Airman O'Malley and Airman Rodriguez on the stand: If you gave an order that Private Santiago wasn't to be touched, and your orders are always followed, then why would Private Santiago be in danger (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

Oh, your story has touched me heart (Yellow Submarine; writing credit: Al Brodax; Jack Mendelsohn)

'Cause it's never touched a frying pan (One Week; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies)

Touches the touched part of me like I can't believe (Mad About You; performing artist: Belinda Carlisle)

I've been cookin' all morning and you haven't touched a single bite ("Ode to Billy Joe"; performing artist: Bobbie Gentry)

Til ya know how she needs to be touched (Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman?; performing artist: Bryan Adams)

You touched my hand I could touch the sky (Because you loved me; performing artist: Celine Dion)

You did touch me but didn't feel my pain. Jesus came and touched me, and I don't feel the pain any more. (references; author: unknown)

Touched (2003)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• God Encounters: To Touch God and Be Touched by Him (reference)

• Living with Stroke : A Guide For Families: Help and New Hope for All Those Touched by Stroke (reference)

• Touched by Fire: Doctors Without Borders in a Third World Crisis (reference)

• Touched by the Gods (Penumbra / D20) (reference)

• Touched by the Hand of Bob: Epiphanal Bob Dylan Experience from a Buick Six (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Touched By an Angel - Collector's Edition [CUT OUT] (reference)

• Star Trek - The Original Series, Vol. 33, Episodes 65 & 66: For The World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky/ Day Of The Dove (reference)

• He Touched Me - The Gospel Music of Elvis Presley (reference)

• Touched By an Angel - Indigo Angel (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Surface photographs from the Soviet Venera 13 spacecraft.The first of the Venera missions to include a color TV camera and the first to succeedin obtaining pictures since Venera 10, the Venera 13 lander touched down on 3 March 1982. Credit: NASA.

Colorful fireworm projecting from a coral head has a sting if touched. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

In floating drydock ABSD-1, off Aessi Island, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, on 13 November 1944. The battleship was docked for upkeep and repair to propellers damaged when she touched ground off Leyte on 21 October. Credit: NAVY.

When her hands touched the keys a new tension came into the slender figure. Credit: Library of Congress.

The long table quite full, a tree that touched the ceiling ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Never touched me. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

A footman, in a handsome livery, came forward and respectfully touched his hat.

Twelve! He touched the spring of his repeater, to correct this most preposterous clock

We shall see whether Hester Prynne were afterwards so touched, and so transfigured

Aspasia was a being who touched the two extremes of woman, the prostitute goddess

Touched ever since

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Itching and a rash at the site of where skin touched soil or sand is usually the first sign of infection. (references)

By putting anything into your mouth that has touched the stool of a person who is infected with E. histolytica. (references)

Pain when your forehead over the frontal sinuses is touched may indicate that your frontal sinuses are inflammed. (references)

Business

The SIAS market touched a new high of 24,542 units in FY 2000 for a solid 41 percent year-on-year growth. (references)

Economic History

Bangladesh

In the aftermath of the 1998 floods, food inflation touched 18.0%, but then began a sustained decline as the food shortages many expected did not materialize. (references)

Egypt

Working with the Egyptian government on structural adjustment and policy reforms opened up a greater role for the private sector and touched many enterprises both great and small. (references)

Haiti

Raoul Cedras and other top leaders agreed to accept the intervention of the MNF. On September 19, 1994, the first contingents of what became a 21,000 international force touched down in Haiti to oversee the end of military rule and the restoration of the constitutional government. (references)

Human Rights

Yugoslavia

In late August, police beat a Rom, Dusan Jovanovic, reportedly because he touched their police car. (references)

Turkey

After being forced to strip in front of male security officers, female detainees often are touched, insulted, and threatened with rape. (references)

Israel and the occupied territories

On November 22, five schoolboys in Gaza on their way to class were killed by the explosion of an ordnance that they found and apparently touched. (references)

Trade

Finland

Then the recession in the early 1990s and a severe banking and financial sector crisis, aggravated by bad lending practices in the late 1980s, touched off a consolidation of excess banking capacity. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Divinely touched

Divinely touched

Divinely touched

Divinely touched

Divinely touched

Divinely touched

Expressions using "touched": be touched ♦ be touched upon ♦ his brain is a bit touched ♦ touched tinged. Additional references.

Beginning with "touched": touched-down, touched-her, touched-up.

Ending with "touched": heaven-touched, hell-touched, market-if-touched, re-touched, un-touched, wind-touched.

Albanian

i prekur (affected, aghast, hurt, moved, resentful, sore, stricken, touchable), i mallëngjyer. (various references)

Arabic 

‏ممسوس (insane, mad, maniac, possessed), ‏متأثر عاطفيا, ‏مخبول (crack-brained, crazed, demented, fool, idiotic, insane, loony, lunatic, mad, mentally deranged, off his head, out of one's mind, potty, stupid). (various references)

Bulgarian 

смахнат (bughouse, crack-brained, cracked, cracky, dippy, kinky, mental, nutty, off one's rocker, potty, queer, soft, up the pole, wacky, zany), развълнуван (aflutter, agitated, astir, choppy, overwrought, perturbed, streaked, thrilled, turbulent, upset), трогнат, не със всичкия си, побъркан (addle-brained, addle-headed, addle-pated, cockeyed, crank, crazy, cuckoo, demented, having a screw loose, light-head, light-headed, mental, moonstruck, nutty). (various references)

Chinese 

接触 (contacting, Contiguous, touch, touching). (various references)

Czech

praštìný (Batty, cock eyed, crackers, daft, Dotty, loony, mad, moonstruck, moony, muddle-headed, nutty), dojatý. (various references)

Danish

limiteringskurset nået,men handelen ikke nødvendigvis eksekveret (touched price), induktionsspolen er indkapslet i elastomer, som udelukker enhver mulighed for kontakt med viklingerne (the inductor is embedded in an elastomer block which makes it absolutely impossible for the windings to be touched). (various references)

Dutch

raak (go, striking). (various references)

Finnish

liikuttunut (moved). (various references)

French

touchés, touchées, touchée, touché (touched price), touchèrent, toucha, toqué, timbré. (various references)

German

streifte (streaked, Striped), gerührt (moved, overcome, seized with emotion, stired), berührt (touches), angefaßt. (various references)

Greek 

συγκενημένοσ, τρελλόσ λίγο. (various references)

Hungarian

meghatott (moved). (various references)

Indonesian

pilu (affected, moved, sympathetic). (various references)

Italian

tocco (chunk, feel, gaga, piece, streak, stroke, Toque, touch), toccato (mad), commosso (affected, moved, unrest, uptight), afferrato (accessed). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

触れる (to be emotionally moved, to be touched, to feel, to perceive, to touch, to touch on a subject, to violate). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しょっかん (between meals, sense of being touched, sense of touch, tactile sense), ぼけ (Alzheimer's, fool, idiot, Japanese quince, out of it from, space case, touched in the head from), うごく (to be influenced, to be touched, to be transferred, to change, to fluctuate, to go, to move, to operate, to run, to shake, to shift, to stir, to swing, to vary, to waver, to work), ふれる (to be emotionally moved, to be touched, to deflect, to feel, to lean towards, to perceive, to shake, to swing, to touch, to touch on a subject, to violate, to wave), ほろりとする (to be moved to tears, to be touched by, to become sentimental), げん (bow string, chord, fundamental, handle, not to be touched, original, primary, primitive, raw, remark, serious, statement, string, word). (various references)

Korean 

만지는. (various references)

Pig Latin

ouchedtay.(various references)

Portuguese

desequilibrado (off-balance, top-heavy, unbalanced, wacky), amalucado (cracked, dippy, nutty, pixilated). (various references)

Romanian

puţin nebun, pãtruns (imbued with, moved, pervaded by), mişcat (affected, excited, upset), emoţionat (excited, excitedly, feverish, soulful, upset), atins (loony, reached). (various references)

Russian 

слегка помешанный, касаться тронутый, взволнованный (agitated, astir, excited, flurried, moved, narked, perturbate, revved up, thrilled). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

retuširan, potresan (moving, startling, upsetting), ganut (impassioned, moved), ćaknut (batty, cracked, crackers, harebrained, moonstruck, queer, soft, soft-headed, wacky, whacky). (various references)

Spanish

tocado (coiffure, cuckoo, feigned, headdress, left, moonstruck, toilet, toilette), chiflado (barmy, cracked, crackpot, crazy, daft, freak, loon, loony, Loopy, mad, madly, nut, nutter, off his head, off one's nut, screwy, trolley, wacky). (various references)

Swedish

tokig (barmy, Batty, bonkers, cock eyed, cockeyed, crack-brained, cracked, crackers, crazy, cuckoo, daffy, daft, demented, Dotty, fruity, gaga, insane, loony, mad, madcap, moony, nuts, ridiculous, wrong), rörd (affected, moved, stirred), knasig (barmy, Batty, dippy, draft, fruity, gaga, half-baked, kookie, kooky, Loopy, mental, nutty, off one's head, off one's nuts, potty, scatty, screwy, wacky, wet), grippen, gripen (affected, seized). (various references)

Turkish

müteessir (affected by, regretful), etkilenmiş (affected, moved, shaken, smitten), deli (Batty, bedlamite, bonkers, crackers, cracky, crazy, daft, delirious, dement, demented, demon, demoniac, demoniacal, dippy, distracted, distraught, gaga, insane, loco, loony, lunatic, mad, mad about, madman, madwoman, meshuggah, not all there, nutcase, nuts, nutty, off one's onion, out of one's mind, out of one's senses, phrenetic, possessed, potty), bozuk (addle, bad, broken, broken down, bum, damaged, dead, deranged, dirty, disappointed, dished, disordered, distorted, doric, embroiled, faulty, flyblown, foul, gone, hard set, haywire, heavy, hipshot, imperfect, in bad order, irregular, kaput, knackered, off, on the fritz, out of action, out of commission, out of gear, out of order, perverse, putrefacient, putrefactive, putrid, rancid, rotten, stale, unsound, upset, vicious, wrong), çatlak (balmy, barmy, break, chap, chapped, chappy, chink, chip, cleft, cloven, crack, crack-brained, cracked, crackers, cracky, cranny, crevasse, crevice, cuckoo, disordered, fault, fissure, flaw, fracture, fractured, hoarse, interstice, interstitial, meshuggah, nut, nutty, off one's chump, off one's rocker, pixilated, potty, queer, queer in the head, rift, rupture, rusty, screwy, shake, shaken, shaky, split, spring). (various references)

Ukrainian

схвильований (affected, agitated, excited, flurried, keyed, perturbate, unquiet), придуркуватий (assish, calvish, imbecile, naпve, oafish, sheepish, slaphappy, soft-headed, wanting, weak-headed). (various references)

Vietnamese 

xúc động điên điên, hâm hâm (dippy, moonstruck), gàn gàn (cuckoo), bối rối (constrained, discomposedly, loss, out, sea, stump). (various references)

pulsatus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words ending with "touched": mistouched, retouched, unretouched, untouched. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Touched" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: otched, rouched, Tauchen, teached, Tiutchev, toche, tocuhe, tooche, tooked, touce, Touchee, toucher, touchet, toucheth, touchez, toucshe, toushe, Tsuchida, tuche, Tuchel, Tyuchev. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: chuted, douche, ouched, thoued, touche.

-2 letters: chute, coted, coude, couth, doeth, douce, dutch, educt, outed, teuch, touch.

-3 letters: code, coed, cote, cued, cute, deco, dote, doth, duce, duct, duet, echo, etch, hoed, hued, ohed, ouch, thou, thud, toed.

-4 letters: cod, cot, cud, cue, cut, doc, doe, dot, due, duh, duo, ecu, edh, eth, het.

+1 letter: outchide.

+2 letters: headcount, outchided, outchides, outechoed, retouched, unclothed, untouched.

+3 letters: coauthored, headcounts, mistouched, outbitched, outcharged, outcharmed, outcheated, outchidden, outcoached, outmarched, outmatched, outpitched, outpunched, outreached, outschemed, outwatched, scouthered.

+4 letters: bucktoothed, debouchment, discotheque, endothecium, mustachioed, outachieved, outpreached, photoreduce, thermoduric, truncheoned, unretouched, urochordate.

+5 letters: closemouthed, creaturehood, debouchments, discotheques, outstretched, photoinduced, photoreduced, photoreduces, thundercloud, turbocharged, underclothes, urochordates.