The audience was carried away by his touching performance.
Source: tatoeba (20936)
Touching
//ˈtʌt͡ʃɪŋ//
Synonyms for "touching" (164 found)
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Strong matches (49)
Related words (82)
in reference toin regard toin relation toin relation within respect toinstallment buyinginstallment planjoylessjuxtaposedkisslamentablemanipulationmeetingmoney-raisingmortgagingmournfulmovingneighboringnudgenudging
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Adjective(4 words)
Adjective(1 words)
Noun(1 words)
Preposition(1 words)
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4 entriesform of
1 entriesis a
3 entriesrelated to
4 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
51 translations across 32 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- مُؤَثِّر adj (provoking sadness and pity)
- لَمْس noun (The act by which something is touched)
Armenian
1 entries- հուզիչ adj (provoking sadness and pity)
Belarusian
3 entries- жа́ласлівы adj (provoking sadness and pity)
- замілава́льны adj (provoking sadness and pity)
- крана́льны adj (provoking sadness and pity)
Bulgarian
2 entries- трога́телен adj (provoking sadness and pity)
- докосване noun (The act by which something is touched)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 使……感動 /使……感动 adj (provoking sadness and pity)
- 感人 adj (provoking sadness and pity)
Czech
1 entries- dojemný adj (provoking sadness and pity)
Danish
1 entries- rørende adj (provoking sadness and pity)
Dutch
1 entries- roerend adj (provoking sadness and pity)
Finnish
2 entries- koskettava adj (provoking sadness and pity)
- liikuttava adj (provoking sadness and pity)
French
1 entries- touchant adj (provoking sadness and pity)
German
3 entries- anrührend adj (provoking sadness and pity)
- ergreifend adj (provoking sadness and pity)
- rührend adj (provoking sadness and pity)
Greek
1 entries- συγκινητικός adj (provoking sadness and pity)
Hungarian
2 entries- megható adj (provoking sadness and pity)
- megindító adj (provoking sadness and pity)
Irish
1 entries- corraitheach adj (provoking sadness and pity)
Italian
2 entries- commovente adj (provoking sadness and pity)
- toccante adj (provoking sadness and pity)
Japanese
1 entries- 感動的な adj (provoking sadness and pity)
Korean
1 entries- 감동적 adj (provoking sadness and pity)
Latin
1 entries- flexanimus adj (provoking sadness and pity)
Macedonian
1 entries- трогателен adj (provoking sadness and pity)
Māori
2 entries- whakaaroha adj (provoking sadness and pity)
- whakaaroharoha adj (provoking sadness and pity)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- rørende adj (provoking sadness and pity)
Polish
1 entries- wzruszający adj (provoking sadness and pity)
Portuguese
1 entries- tocante adj (provoking sadness and pity)
Russian
1 entries- тро́гательный adj (provoking sadness and pity)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- dìrljiv adj (provoking sadness and pity)
- дѝрљив adj (provoking sadness and pity)
Slovak
2 entries- dojemný adj (provoking sadness and pity)
- dojímavý adj (provoking sadness and pity)
Slovene
1 entries- ganljiv adj (provoking sadness and pity)
Spanish
3 entries- conmovedor adj (provoking sadness and pity)
- emotivo adj (provoking sadness and pity)
- enternecedor adj (provoking sadness and pity)
Swedish
2 entries- känslosam adj (provoking sadness and pity)
- rörande adj (provoking sadness and pity)
Turkish
4 entries- dokunaklı adj (provoking sadness and pity)
- hazin adj (provoking sadness and pity)
- hüzünlü adj (provoking sadness and pity)
- dokunuş noun (The act by which something is touched)
Ukrainian
1 entries- звору́шливий adj (provoking sadness and pity)
Vietnamese
1 entries- cảm động adj (provoking sadness and pity)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
Your dress is touching the wet paint.
Source: tatoeba (36860)
The touching episode came home to me.
Source: tatoeba (44998)
When I was a kid, touching bugs didn't bother me a bit. Now I can hardly stand looking at pictures of them.
Source: tatoeba (272157)
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