touchingly | (adverb) in a poignant or touching manner | Synonyms: affectingly, poignantly |
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touchline | (noun) either of the sidelines in soccer or rugby | - |
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touchscreen | (noun) a computer display that enables the user to interact with the computer by touching areas on the screen | Synonyms: touch screen |
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touchstone | (noun) a basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated | Synonyms: criterion, measure, standard |
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touchwood | (noun) material for starting a fire | Synonyms: kindling, punk, spunk, tinder |
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touchy | (adjective) difficult to handle; requiring great tact | Synonyms: delicate, ticklish |
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(adjective) quick to take offense | Synonyms: feisty, huffy, thin-skinned |
tough | (adjective) resistant to cutting or chewing | - |
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(adjective) physically toughened | Synonyms: toughened |
(adjective) not given to gentleness or sentimentality | - |
(adjective) unfortunate or hard to bear | Synonyms: hard |
(adjective) substantially made or constructed | Synonyms: sturdy |
(adjective) feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad') | Synonyms: bad |
(adjective) violent and lawless | Synonyms: ruffianly |
(adjective) very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution | Synonyms: rugged |
(adjective) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | Synonyms: baffling, elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical |
(noun) an aggressive and violent young criminal | Synonyms: goon, hood, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, thug, toughie |
(noun) a cruel and brutal fellow | Synonyms: bully, hooligan, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, yob, yobbo, yobo |
(noun) someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing | Synonyms: street fighter |
toughen | (verb) make tough or tougher | - |
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toughened | (adjective) physically toughened | Synonyms: tough |
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(adjective) made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment | Synonyms: hardened, tempered, treated |
toughie | (noun) a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem | Synonyms: poser, sticker, stumper |
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(noun) an aggressive and violent young criminal | Synonyms: goon, hood, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, thug, tough |
toughly | (adverb) in a ruggedly tough manner | - |
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toughness | (noun) the property of being big and strong | Synonyms: huskiness, ruggedness |
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(noun) enduring strength and energy | Synonyms: stamina, staying power |
(noun) impressive difficulty | Synonyms: formidability |
(noun) the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking | Synonyms: temper |
toupe | (noun) a small hairpiece to cover partial baldness | Synonyms: toupee |
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toupee | (noun) a small hairpiece to cover partial baldness | Synonyms: toupe |
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toupeed | (adjective) wearing a small hairpiece to cover partial baldness | - |
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tour | (noun) a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area | Synonyms: circuit |
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(noun) a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else) | Synonyms: go, spell, turn |
(noun) a period of time spent in military service | Synonyms: duty tour, enlistment, hitch, term of enlistment, tour of duty |
(verb) make a tour of a certain place | - |
touraco | (noun) large brightly crested bird of Africa | Synonyms: turaco, turacou, turakoo |
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tourer | (noun) large open car seating four with folding top | Synonyms: phaeton, touring car |
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(noun) someone who travels for pleasure | Synonyms: holidaymaker, tourist |
tourism | (noun) the business of providing services to tourists | Synonyms: touristry |
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tourist | (noun) someone who travels for pleasure | Synonyms: holidaymaker, tourer |
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touristed | (adjective) visited by throngs of tourists | Synonyms: touristy |
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touristry | (noun) the business of providing services to tourists | Synonyms: tourism |
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touristy | (adjective) visited by throngs of tourists | Synonyms: touristed |
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tourmaline | (noun) a mineral that is a complex borosilicate and hydroxide of aluminum containing iron and magnesium and calcium and lithium and sodium; it is usually black but occurs in transparent colored forms that are used as gemstones | - |
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tournament | (noun) a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner | Synonyms: tourney |
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(noun) a series of jousts between knights contesting for a prize | - |
tournedos | (noun) thick steak cut from the beef tenderloin | - |
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tourney | (noun) a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner | Synonyms: tournament |
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(verb) engage in a tourney | - |
tourniquet | (noun) bandage that stops the flow of blood from an artery by applying pressure | Synonyms: compression bandage |
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tourtiere | (noun) a meat pie that is usually eaten at Christmas in Quebec | - |
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tousle | (verb) disarrange or rumple; dishevel | Synonyms: dishevel, tangle |
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tousled | (adjective) in disarray; extremely disorderly | Synonyms: disheveled, dishevelled, frowzled, rumpled |
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tout | (noun) someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way | Synonyms: touter |
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(noun) one who sells advice about gambling or speculation (especially at the racetrack) | Synonyms: tipster |
(noun) someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit | Synonyms: ticket tout |
(verb) show off | Synonyms: blow, bluster, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, vaunt |
(verb) advertize in strongly positive terms | - |
touter | (noun) someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way | Synonyms: tout |
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ubiquitous | (adjective) being present everywhere at once | Synonyms: omnipresent |
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ubiquitousness | (noun) the state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at once) | Synonyms: omnipresence, ubiquity |
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untouchable | (adjective) forbidden to the touch | - |
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(adjective) impossible to assail | Synonyms: unassailable |
(adjective) beyond the reach of criticism or attack or impeachment | - |
(adjective) not capable of being obtained | Synonyms: inaccessible, unobtainable, unprocurable |
(adjective) (especially used in traditional Hindu belief of the lowest caste or castes) defiling | - |
(noun) belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India | Synonyms: Harijan |
untouched | (adjective) not having come in contact | - |
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(adjective) emotionally unmoved | Synonyms: unaffected, unmoved |
(adjective) still full | Synonyms: untasted |
(adjective) not influenced or affected | Synonyms: uninfluenced, unswayed |
untoughened | (adjective) physically untoughened | Synonyms: tender |
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