Touching

Quick meaning: Touching is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of touch.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of touch.

More Meanings

1. Provoking sadness and pity; that can cause sadness or heartbreak among witnesses to a sad event or situation.
2. In direct contact with.
3. Regarding; concerning.
4. The act by which something is touched.
5. (India, in the plural) A snack served with alcoholic drinks in an informal environment.

Example Sentences

a touching story

Now as touching things offered vnto idoles, wee know that wee all haue knowledge.

But we can also take a more analytical attitude to these displays, interpreting the movements as no more than approachings, touchings, and departings with no implication that one shape caused the other to move.

Every time I ascended to the deck from my watches below, I instantly gazed aft to mark if any strange face were visible ; for my first vague disquietude touching the unknown captain, now in the seclusion of the sea, became almost a perturbation.

Word Forms

• touchings

Synonyms for touching

Depending on context, synonyms include emotional, moving, sad, pertingent, juxtacrine, about.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include affecting, moving, poignant, heartbreaking, afflicting, upsetting.

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