Word Meanings - TOUCHING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Affecting; moving; pathetic; as, a touching tale. -- Touch"ing*ly, adv.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TOUCHING)

• About
• Almost
• near
• nearly
• touching
• concerning
• surrounding
• relative to
• relating to
• approximately
• roughly
• generally
• Concerning
• relating
• regarding
• respecting
• with regard to
• Plaintive
• Mournful
• sorrowful
• sad
• doleful
• melancholy
• wailing
• moaning
• Regarding
• Touching
• about
• in reference to

Related words: (words related to TOUCHING)

• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• MOURNFUL
  Full of sorrow; expressing, or intended to express, sorrow; mourning; grieving; sad; also, causing sorrow; saddening; grievous; as, a mournful person; mournful looks, tones, loss. -- Mourn"ful*ly, adv. -- Mourn"ful*ness, n. Syn. -- Sorrowful;
• PLAINTIVE
  1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. Dryden. 2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. "The most plaintive ditty." Landor. -- Plain"tive*ly, adv. -- Plain"tive*ness, n.
• ABOUT
  On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
• RESPECTER
  One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x.
• WAILMENT
  Lamentation; loud weeping; wailing. Bp. Hacket.
• MOANFUL
  Full of moaning; expressing sorrow. -- Moan"ful*ly, adv.
• RELATIVELY
  In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts.
• WAIL
  To choose; to select. "Wailed wine and meats." Henryson.
• WAILFUL
  Sorrowful; mournful. " Like wailful widows." Spenser. "Wailful sonnets." Shak.
• TOUCHING
  Affecting; moving; pathetic; as, a touching tale. -- Touch"ing*ly, adv.
• TOUCHY
  Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire. It may be said of Dryden that he was at no time touchy about personal attacks. Saintsbury.
• SURROUND
  To inclose, as a body of troops, between hostile forces, so as to cut off means of communication or retreat; to invest, as a city. Syn. -- To encompass; encircle; environ; invest; hem in; fence about. (more info) L. super over + undare to rise
• CONCERNEDLY
  In a concerned manner; solicitously; sympathetically.
• RELATE
  1. To bring back; to restore. Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again Both light of heaven and strength of men relate. Spenser. 2. To refer; to ascribe, as to a source. 3. To recount; to narrate; to tell over. This heavy act with heavy
• RELATIVITY
  The state of being relative; as, the relativity of a subject. Coleridge.
• SURROUNDING
  Inclosing; encircling.
• TOUCHBACK
  The act of touching the football down by a player behind his own goal line when it received its last impulse from an opponent; -- distinguished from safety touchdown.
• TOUCH-NEEDLE
  A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for trying the purity of articles of gold or silver by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone.
• MELANCHOLY
  1. Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess. Shak. 2. Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to mental unsoundness; melancholia. 3. Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness.
• PRELATIST
  One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• PRELATISM
  Prelacy; episcopacy.
• UNCONCERNMENT
  The state of being unconcerned, or of having no share or concern; unconcernedness. South.
• PRELATIZE
  To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey.
• BEWAIL
  To express deep sorrow for, as by wailing; to lament; to wail over. Hath widowed and unchilded many a one, Which to this hour bewail the injury. Shak. Syn. -- To bemoan; grieve. -- See Deplore.
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• BEWAILING
  Wailing over; lamenting. -- Be*wail"ing*ly, adv.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• BY-RESPECT
  Private end or view; by-interest. Dryden.
• IRRELATIVE
  Not relative; without mutual relations; unconnected. -- Ir*rel"a*tive*ly, adv. Irrelative chords , those having no common tone. -- Irrelative repetition , the multiplication of parts that serve for a common purpose, but have no mutual dependence
• CORRELATIVENESS
  Quality of being correlative.
• SAMOAN
  Of or pertaining to the Samoan Islands (formerly called Navigators' Islands) in the South Pacific Ocean, or their inhabitants. -- n.