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UNTOUCHED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not influenced or affected
Example:
unswayed by personal considerations
Synonyms:
uninfluenced; unswayed; untouched
Classified under:
Similar:
unaffected (undergoing no change when acted upon)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Still full
Example:
an untouched cocktail in her hand
Synonyms:
untasted; untouched
Classified under:
Similar:
full (containing as much or as many as is possible or normal)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Emotionally unmoved
Example:
always appeared completely unmoved and imperturbable
Synonyms:
unaffected; unmoved; untouched
Classified under:
Adjectives
Also:
unaffected (undergoing no change when acted upon)
unemotional (unsusceptible to or destitute of or showing no emotion)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Not having come in contact
Classified under:
Adjectives
Antonym:
touched (having come into contact)
Context examples:
I was not surprised, therefore, when this morning he left his untouched meal behind him, and started with me for Norwood.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
One of the most common ladybird species is bright red, and goes untouched by great tits.
(Birds learn from each other’s ‘disgust’, enabling insects to evolve bright colours, University of Cambridge)
Spitz was untouched, while Buck was streaming with blood and panting hard.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
A pearl necklace I had given you lay untouched in its little casket; your trunks were left corded and locked as they had been prepared for the bridal tour.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Yankees have a trick of being generous to their enemies, said Jo, with a look that made the lad redden, especially when they beat them, she added, as, leaving Kate's ball untouched, she won the game by a clever stroke.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
They could not be untouched by his politeness; and had they drawn his character from their own feelings and his servant's report, without any reference to any other account, the circle in Hertfordshire to which he was known would not have recognized it for Mr. Darcy.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
“It simply means that in the attack on my brain the higher psychical centres are untouched. I can remember, I can think and reason. When that goes, I go. I am not. The soul?”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
It was untouched like the previous sum, and he refolded it in the same way.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
His sadness was not untouched with bitterness as he thought it over.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
These three glasses upon the sideboard have been untouched, I suppose?
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
