different between touched vs troubled
touched
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?t??t/
- Rhymes: -?t?t
Adjective
touched (comparative more touched, superlative most touched)
- Emotionally moved (by), made to feel emotion (by).
- I was touched that he should remember my birthday.
- 1845, Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, Book 4, Chapter 1,
- "They say her Majesty is more touched about these affairs of the Chartists than anything else," said Mr Egerton.
- 1868, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, Part 2, Chapter 42: All Alone,
- “If there is anything good or true in what I write, it isn’t mine. I owe it all to you and Mother and Beth,” said Jo, more touched by her father’s words than by any amount of praise from the world.
- 1883, Jules Verne, Mary de Hauteville (translator), The Green Ray, Chapter XXI: A Tempest in a Cavern,
- “And you came to save me, Mr. Oliver,” answered Miss Campbell, more touched by the courage of the young man than the dangers which could still happen.
- Slightly mentally deficient; touched in the head.
- 1913, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Eva M. Martin (translator), The Idiot, Part III, Chapter IV,
- "Don't you see he is a lunatic, prince?" whispered Evgenie Pavlovitch in his ear. "Someone told me just now that he is a bit touched on the subject of lawyers, that he has a mania for making speeches and intends to pass the examinations. I am expecting a splendid burlesque now."
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Episode 8: The Lestrygonians,
- All a bit touched. Mad Fanny and his other sister Mrs Dickinson driving about with scarlet harness.
- 1913, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Eva M. Martin (translator), The Idiot, Part III, Chapter IV,
Synonyms
- (moved): affected, emotional, moved
- (slightly mentally deficient): retarded (offensive), touched in the head
Translations
Verb
touched
- simple past tense and past participle of touch
touched From the web:
- what touched the nevers
- what touched off the quasi-war with france
- what touched your heart
- what touched bholi's heart at school
troubled
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t??bl?d/
Adjective
troubled (comparative more troubled, superlative most troubled)
- anxious, worried, careworn.
- Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
Translations
Verb
troubled
- simple past tense and past participle of trouble
troubled From the web:
- what troubled the young man in the garret
- what troubled calpurnia
- what troubled muhammad about meccan society
- what troubled brutus
- what troubled the author at darchen
- what trouble evelyn
- what trouble are more than the storm
- what troubled maddie more and more
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