tactile
Tangible; perceptible to the sense of touch.
Example
“tactile method of reading”
Other meanings
Used for feeling.
Of or relating to the sense of touch.
Related words
- teletactility
- audiotactile
- chemotactile
- electrotactile
- entactogen
- mechanotactile
- nontactile
- orotactile
- pedotactile
- pneumotactile
- Protactile
- tactilely
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "tactilis" (that may be touched, tangible).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “tactile” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.