touching
/ˈtʌt͡ʃɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.22 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Provoking sadness and pity; that can cause sadness or heartbreak among witnesses to a sad event or situation.
prep
Example Sentences
- "a touching story"
- "Now as touching things offered vnto idoles, wee know that wee all haue knowledge."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: touchynge, touching