States and conditions
Synonyms for touch
Synonyms for touch: match, reach, affect, contact, feeling and ghost. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 6 synonyms for touch
Interchangeable with touch, one per sense
Audited under touch's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one touch carries in that sense.
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name touch as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
The first group is filed under touch's own senses. The second reach touch from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside them is that word's.
be equal to in quality or ability
Your performance doesn't even touch that of your colleagues.
touch in 2 more sentences, same sense
- None of the food trucks on this street can touch the noodle stall on the corner.
- In her letter she admitted that no other city could touch Rome for sheer beauty.
How it behaves: In this sense touch usually appears in negative or comparative constructions, such as "can't touch" or "nothing can touch," comparing one person or thing against another.
The true synonym
match
Same sentence, swapped: Your performance doesn't even match that of your colleagues.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for touch in the sentence quoted.
- contact
- concern
- run
to extend as far as
The chair must not touch the wall.
touch in 2 more sentences, same sense
- The mechanic warned that the exhaust pipe should never touch the underside of the car.
- In the crowded kitchen, the pot's handle must not touch the hot burner beside it.
How it behaves: In this sense touch usually takes a concrete physical object as its direct object and often appears in negative constructions such as 'must not touch' when describing spatial clearance.
The true synonym
reach
Same sentence, swapped: The chair must not reach the wall.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- concern
- impact
- hang
Opposites, in this sense
clear and miss reverse touch as it is used in the sentence above. A different sense of touch takes different opposites, which is why these sit inside the sense and not at the top of the page.
- clear
- miss
Where touch turns up in the game
touch is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in ten other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
4 of the 10 puzzles where touch is the trap
- feelingnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is opinion, in the sense "a vague idea in which some confidence is placed", with touch sitting one tile away.
- matchverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is fit, in the sense "make correspond or harmonize", and touch is on the board beside it.
- meetverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is fit, in the sense "fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction", and touch is on the board beside it.
- readverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is understand, in the sense "make sense of a language", so touch is there to be ruled out.
Play touch
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so touch reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. touch carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.