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Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma. Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch.
Bill Bryson

Meaning of "out of touch" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF OUT OF TOUCH

out of touch  [aʊt əv tʌtʃ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OUT OF TOUCH

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Out of touch is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES OUT OF TOUCH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Out of Touch

"Out of Touch" is a 1984 song by Hall & Oates. This lead single from their 1984 album Big Bam Boom was their last Billboard Hot 100 number one, topping the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in December 1984. It became the duo's fourteenth consecutive top 40 hit since 1980. The song often segued from "Dance on Your Knees" which is the opening song of the album. The music video also contains the "Dance on Your Knees" intro, which segues into an edit of the 12" remix version.

Definition of out of touch in the English dictionary

The definition of out of touch in the dictionary is no longer knowledgeable about or up to date withto be out of touch. Other definition of out of touch is not or no longer in contact with.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OUT OF TOUCH


clutch
klʌtʃ
clutches
klʌtʃ
crutch
krʌtʃ
cutch
kʌtʃ
double-clutch
ˌdʌb əlˈklʌtʃ
dutch
dʌtʃ
hutch
hʌtʃ
inasmuch
ˌɪnəzˈmʌtʃ
insomuch
ˌɪnsəʊˈmʌtʃ
Kutch
kʌtʃ
mistouch
ˌmɪsˈtʌtʃ
much
mʌtʃ
mutch
mʌtʃ
nonesuch
ˈnʌnˌsʌtʃ
nonsuch
ˈnʌnˌsʌtʃ
overmuch
ˌəʊvəˈmʌtʃ
retouch
riːˈtʌtʃ
scutch
skʌtʃ
such
sʌtʃ
touch
tʌtʃ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OUT OF TOUCH

out of sorts
out of square
out of step
out of stock
out of the ark
out of the blue
out of the box
out of the frying pan into the fire
out of the ordinary
out of the question
out of the way
out of the window
out of the wood
out of thin air
out of training
out of turn
out of voice
out of whack
out of whole cloth
out of work

WORDS THAT END LIKE OUT OF TOUCH

Ashby-de-la-Zouch
cartouch
casting couch
couch
crouch
easy touch
finishing touch
grouch
kick into touch
Midas touch
ouch
pouch
safety touch
slouch
soft touch
studio couch
the Midas touch
therapeutic touch
tobacco pouch
vouch

Synonyms and antonyms of out of touch in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «out of touch» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OUT OF TOUCH

Find out the translation of out of touch to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of out of touch from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «out of touch» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

不了解的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

alejado de la realidad
570 millions of speakers

English

out of touch
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

संपर्क से बाहर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

من اللمس
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

вне пределов досягаемости
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

por fora
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্পর্শ এর বাইরে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

coupé
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Daripada sentuhan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

nicht auf dem Laufenden
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

事情にうとくなって
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

> 모르는
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Metu saka tutul
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mất liên lạc
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தொடுதல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

संपर्काच्या बाहेर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

iletişim içerisinde olmamak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

non in sintonia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

w kontakcie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

поза межами досяжності
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

din tactil
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

από την αφή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

uit voeling
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

onåbara
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ut av kontakten
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of out of touch

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OUT OF TOUCH»

The term «out of touch» is very widely used and occupies the 17.930 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OUT OF TOUCH» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about out of touch

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10 QUOTES WITH «OUT OF TOUCH»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word out of touch.
1
Jean-Jacques Annaud
There is a broad cultural current that conveys the idea that a film is like a football team, it represents a nation, it is illustrated literature, filmed radio. These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today's realities.
2
Richard Armitage
Whenever you're out of town, no matter modern communications, you feel a little bit out of touch.
3
Malcolm Boyd
Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
4
Bill Bryson
Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma. Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch.
5
Adrian Cronauer
A corollary is that, when laws are out of touch with the people, those laws can and should be changed - from the most simple local regulations to the highest law of the land, our federal Constitution.
6
Olympia Dukakis
So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. But then, that's really the fate of many women today.
7
Ronnie Dunn
What I've learned by going out and playing smaller venues and being more in touch with people is getting feedback, just by virtue of being able to watch the crowd react and watch their faces instead of being blinded by 3,000 spotlights. I've realized that you can quickly get out of touch with your audience if you're not careful.
8
Elizabeth Emken
In California, for so long now, our families have been struggling in this economic environment, and Dianne Feinstein, been in office nearly half a century, is out of touch of what women and families are going through in California.
9
Elizabeth Emken
We all know Sen. Feinstein is out of touch, but just to make it worse, by not embracing today's technology, she isn't even connected. out of touch and disconnected.
10
Louise Fletcher
Life had stopped for her a long time ago. She was so out of touch with her feelings that she had no joy in her life and no concept of the fact that she could be wrong. She delivered her care of her insane patients in a killing manner, but she was convinced she was right.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OUT OF TOUCH»

Discover the use of out of touch in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to out of touch and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Out of Touch: The Presidency and Public Opinion
Out of Touch: The Presidency and Public Opinion compares the changes in the ways the Truman, Johnson, and Carter administrations looked at and understood public opinion as their popularity declined.
Michael J. Towle, 2004
2
Out of Touch: Skin Tropes and Identities in Woolf, Ellison, ...
Looks at the figurative use of skin in the works of Virginia Woolf, Ralph Ellison, Thomas Pynchon, and Kathy Acker.
Maureen Frances Curtin, 2003
3
In and Out of Touch: Whakamaa in Cross Cultural Context
Whakamaa is a Maori word without an English counterpart. This book investigates this central Maori cultural concept in terms of both individual experience and cultural misunderstanding.
Joan Metge, 2014
4
Falling Out of Touch: A Study on Vietnamese Communist Policy ...
This path-breaking study of alliance ending in disenchantment draws on previously inaccessible archives in Hanoi, on interviews with participants and on a range of French and Thai archival sources.
Thomas Engelbert, Christopher E. Goscha, 1995
5
Out of Touch : When Parents and Children Lose Contact after ...
But the book does more than tell the stories of failed relationships.
Baltimore Geoffrey L. Greif Associate Professor of Social Work University of Maryland, 1997
6
Ethics of the Body: Postconventional Challenges
Essays approach bioethics from postmodernist feminist theoretical perspectives, opening it to critiques that question the traditional normative framework.
Margrit Shildrick, Roxanne Mykitiuk, 2005
7
Boundaries of Touch: Parenting and Adult-Child Intimacy
If she is confused, then she is out of touch with her intuition. At this point, her best bet is to simply do what Sears says to do. Yet another reason for sharing sleep is that sleeping with one's child allows for continuous unrestricted breastfeeding.
Jean O'Malley Halley, 2007
8
Out of Touch: A Pat Cassidy Novel
DANGER continues to follow Pat Cassidy in OUT OF TOUCH, as he searches for Sheriff Vogel's long lost son, Kerry.
E. P. Garth, 2010
9
Phenomenological Method: Theory and Practice
20 Sheer succession of the tactual prespatial sensum-spreadoutness is most originally presented in replacing of non-touch by out-of-touch. The "space-form" is, we might say, a "spread-in-ness" in contrast to "spreadoutness." The archontic  ...
F. Kersten, 1989
10
The Out-of-Sync Child Has Fun, Revised Edition: Activities ...
The child with poor tactile discrimination may: D Seem out of touch with his own hands. D Have trouble holding and using tools (pencils, scissors, forks). D Not touch or pick up items that appeal to others. CH Not perceive objects' properties ...
Carol Kranowitz, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OUT OF TOUCH»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term out of touch is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Unspeakables way out of touch
It needs to be made clear at the start that you are not paying for a bunch of MPs to travel to England to participate in the Parliamentary Rugby ... «New Zealand Herald, Jul 15»
2
Aussie opposition leader challenges "out of touch" PM at national …
Shorten declared that half of all Labor MPs would be female by 2025, calling Abbott "out of touch" and living in the past when it came to equal ... «Shanghai Daily, Jul 15»
3
Dems Say Jeb's Out Of Touch On Medicare
Democrats are up in arms over Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush's recent comments about Medicare. The former Florida Governor ... «WFSU, Jul 15»
4
John Key 'painfully out of touch'
Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei said Mr Key was "painfully out of touch" if he thought low and middle income Aucklanders would ever be ... «New Zealand Herald, Jul 15»
5
PM 'painfully out of touch' on housing
Co-leader Metiria Turei said Mr Key was "painfully out of touch" if he thought low and middle income Aucklanders would ever be able to afford ... «Otago Daily Times, Jul 15»
6
Naive and out of touch? Leading evangelical bishop slates Pope's …
A leading evangelical Church of England bishop and a Labour member of the House of Lords have criticised the Pope's encyclical on the ... «ChristianToday, Jul 15»
7
AMI: FCA chiefs out of touch
AMI chief executive Robert Sinclair branded Financial Conduct Authority bosses as "out of touch" before it was announced that Martin Wheatley ... «Mortgage Introducer, Jul 15»
8
Letter: Sutter is too out of touch with Fall River
Sam Sutter is a man of privilege. He grew up rich, went to prep school, attended college and graduated with a law degree. This man has no ... «Fall River Herald News, Jul 15»
9
Max Key's Hawaii holiday video 'makes Prime Minister look out of
The Prime Minister says he was "a reluctant participant" in his son's holiday video, which has drawn criticism for making him look out of touch. «Taranaki Daily News, Jul 15»
10
OPINION: Choppergate: How long does it take to become out of
How long would it take me to become out of touch? No editor has agreed to let me undertake this rigorous piece of investigative journalism ... «Newcastle Herald, Jul 15»

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