Meanings
- Greekliterallyhuman sciencesThe ability to turn everything one touches into gold.
1 more example
All phenomena that arouse moral indignation if they occur in bourgeois society are turned to gold, as if by a Midas touch, if they serve the interests of the new power: the armed invasion of a foreign state is liberation, aggression is defence, tortures represent the people's noble rage against the exploiters.
1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 516 - idiomaticThe ability to achieve financial reward (or, more generally, success) from one's actions easily and consistently.
Synonyms: golden touch · Antonyms: reverse Midas touch
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounThe ability to achieve financial reward (or, more generally, success) from one's actions easily and consistently.
Origin
Translations
Finnish Midaan kosketus
- Midaan kosketusability to gain financial reward or success from one’s actions easily and consistently
Greek το άγγιγμα του Μίδα
- το άγγιγμα του Μίδα (to ángigma tou Mída)ability to gain financial reward or success from one’s actions easily and consistently
Italian tocco di Mida
- tocco di Midaability to gain financial reward or success from one’s actions easily and consistently
Polish dotyk Midasa
- dotyk Midasaability to gain financial reward or success from one’s actions easily and consistently
Portuguese toque de Midas
- toque de Midasability to gain financial reward or success from one’s actions easily and consistently
Cite this entry
Midas touch. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Midas%20touch
“Midas touch.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Midas%20touch. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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