Tactile means to do with touch, or pleasant to handle. Tactile feedback, a tactile surface, a tactile person.
Of a person it means somebody who touches while talking, which is a description rather than a criticism. In design, tactile paving is the raised pattern at a kerb that tells a blind pedestrian the road is there.
1adjectivetactileTo do with touch, or pleasant to handle.
“Babies learn through tactile experiences, like touching sand and water.”
tactile is a quality.
Latin tactilis means touchable, from tangere, to touch.
Proto-Indo-European
*teh₂g-
Latin
tactilis — that may be touched, tangible
Middle French
tactile
English, today
tactile
Built from
Borrowed from Middle French tactile, from Latin tactilis (“that may be touched, tangible”), from tangere (“to touch”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA