Emotional
Touched
Touched adjective - Being excited or provoked to the expression of an emotion.
Usage example: very touched by the stranger's kindness
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Synonyms for Touched
Emotional and touched are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Emotional" instead an adjective "Touched".
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- Instead, there is one major trauma — which, when touched upon, opens up a heaving wall of repressed guilt and grief, and renders the mobster an emotional wreck for weeks.
Source: Single-Issue Psychology -
Once she gets more comfortable with touching and being touched again, she sometimes clutches her forehead on Dexter's to show her emotional support.
Source: Headbutt of Love - Fate was a timid wreck who shivered when touched and bore incredible guilt over the death of her actual mother Precia and her emotional mother Linith.
Source: Because You Can Cope
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