teched

adjective

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Definition of techednext
as in touched

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  1. touched
  2. fey
  3. loco
  4. mad
  5. maniacal
  6. deranged
  7. demented
  8. off
Adjective
  • Our family is very touched and deeply grateful by this incredible tribute.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Still, Federer certainly had his long runs on top and touched tennis fans worldwide for more than 20 years with his shotmaking and class on and off the court.
    — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2022
Definition of touched
Adjective
  • The film casts Courtenay as Norman, the devoted, slightly fey dresser to a declining Shakespearean actor (Finney) touring England during the Blitz.
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 19 May 2026
  • And the spacious rooms are fit for a man’s man like Duke Wayne, not a fey faux-cowboy like Kevin Costner – just sayin’!
    — David Weiss, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2026
Definition of fey
Adjective
  • Real investors survey the landscape and look for signs of a market gone loco.
    — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 2 July 2017
Definition of loco
Adjective
  • Richard Dawkins, the British evolutionary theorist and author of the groundbreaking best seller The Selfish Gene (1976), among many other books, appears to have gone a bit mad.
    — James Gleick, The New York Review of Books, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Mel Brooks’ comedy The Producers also took a poke at that mad man with Springtime for Hitler.
    — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of mad
Adjective
  • Rihanna’s here, maniacal crowds are lining up outside shows to screech and wave at their favorite stars and days of runway events big and small lie ahead.
    — Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2026
  • These machines—the maniacal Maverick R, with its praying mantis-like front suspension, and the hard-working Pioneer—have little else in common.
    — Caleb Jacobs, The Drive, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of maniacal
Adjective
  • But the more productive expansion has to do with character, especially as regards Carrie and her mother, who is not the deranged, abusive religious fanatic of previous versions, but an essentially loving parent frightened of the modern world.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Circlevillians turned on their city like a squadron of deranged geometers.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of deranged
Adjective
  • Like much of the play, called Anon after (among other things) the demented QAnon movement, the conversation is very funny.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2026
  • The lines between Iñárritu’s fiction and our demented present are clearly blurring.
    — Brent Lang, IndieWire, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of demented
Adjective
  • Bieber’s dance rehearsals and the functional off-stage uniform of ballet dancers.
    — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026
  • After an off week, Ole Miss dominated Vanderbilt on Saturday to the tune of 52-17 in Nashville.
    — PJ Green October 12, Kansas City Star, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of off
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“Teched.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teched. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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