UNTOUCHED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does untouched mean? 

• UNTOUCHED (adjective)
  The adjective UNTOUCHED has 4 senses:

1. still full

2. not influenced or affected

3. not having come in contact

4. emotionally unmoved

  Familiarity information: UNTOUCHED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNTOUCHED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Still full

Synonyms:

untasted; untouched

Context example:

an untouched cocktail in her hand

Similar:

full (containing as much or as many as is possible or normal)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Not influenced or affected

Synonyms:

uninfluenced; unswayed; untouched

Context example:

unswayed by personal considerations

Similar:

unaffected (undergoing no change when acted upon)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Not having come in contact

Antonym:

touched (having come into contact)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Emotionally unmoved

Synonyms:

unaffected; unmoved; untouched

Context example:

always appeared completely unmoved and imperturbable

Also:

unaffected (undergoing no change when acted upon)

unemotional (unsusceptible to or destitute of or showing no emotion)

 Context examples 

"Overdue" lay untouched upon the table, and each day the heap of returned manuscripts under the table grew larger.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

No better explanation can be given with our present knowledge; and yet consider, Sherlock, how much you leave untouched.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My impression is, that I dined off Dora, entirely, and sent away half-a-dozen plates untouched.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Or that he did not give her the use of their own instrument—which must now be shut up in London, untouched by any body.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Miss Crawford, untouched and inattentive, had nothing to say; and Fanny, perceiving it, brought back her own mind to what she thought must interest.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

We found nothing throughout except dust in extraordinary proportions, and all untouched save for my own footsteps when I had made my first visit.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He got them, or got away, himself untouched in either event.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Ah! Miss Dashwood—a subject such as this—untouched for fourteen years—it is dangerous to handle it at all!

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The gate of Fort Challenger had been untouched, the walls were unbroken, and yet it had been visited by some strange and powerful creature in our absence.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The first, called selective preservation, suggests that some molecules of organic carbon may be difficult for microorganisms to break down, so they remain untouched in sediment even after others have decomposed.

(Carbon hides in sediment, keeping oxygen in atmosphere, National Science Foundation)