touching

Definition

  • adjective: having a strong emotional effect
  • adjective: capable of arousing emotions of tenderness or compassion
  • preposition: in reference to

Examples

  • They were standing side-by-side with their shoulders 'touching'.

  • The temperature outside was 'touching' 38 degrees Celsius.

  • Their story was deeply/very 'touching'. [='moving']

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) That's all you see, people, ''l don't know, l don't know, l don't know.'' You get two people in the house and they start to yell, ''Will you stop touching me? Will you stop touching me?'' And you have to get up and go find out what's going on. So you run over and you say, ''What's going on?'' ''Well, she's touching me.'' So you figure you can solve it. ''Look, don't touch her anymore, OK?'' ''Yeah, but she touched me first.'' You say, ''Well, why didn't you tell her--'' Now you're talking like them. ''Why (..)
    1983 Bill Cosby: Himself