TOUCHED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does touched mean? 

• TOUCHED (adjective)
  The adjective TOUCHED has 3 senses:

1. having come into contact

2. being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion

3. slightly insane

  Familiarity information: TOUCHED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOUCHED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having come into contact

Similar:

brushed (touched lightly in passing; grazed against)

grazed (scraped or touched lightly in passing)

Antonym:

untouched (not having come in contact)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion

Synonyms:

affected; moved; stirred; touched

Context example:

very touched by the stranger's kindness

Similar:

sick (deeply affected by a strong feeling)

Also:

affected (acted upon; influenced)

emotional (of more than usual emotion)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Slightly insane

Synonyms:

fey; touched

Similar:

insane (afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement)

 Context examples 

I was touched by the tenderness of his tone, and asked why.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Nothing seemed to have been touched.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I think that I have touched bottom at last, however.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have infected everything I touched.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She touched a spring, and the front hinged back.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Utterson stepped out and touched him on the shoulder as he passed.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

As he said this his countenance became expressive of a calm, settled grief that touched me to the heart.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I hate to have my things touched, Watson.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Where is Sir Claude Latour?” asked Sir Nigel, as his feet touched ground.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The second came soon afterwards, thinking only of how she might get a feather for herself, but she had scarcely touched her sister than she was held fast.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)