Touchy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Tending to take offense with slight cause; oversensitive.
  • adj. Requiring special tact or skill in handling; delicate: a touchy situation.
  • adj. Highly sensitive to touch. Used of a body part.
  • adj. Easily ignited; flammable.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Extremely sensitive or volatile; easily disturbed to the point of becoming unstable; requiring caution or tactfulness.
  • adj. Easily offended; oversensitive; ticklish.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Apt to take offense on slight provocation; irritable; irascible; peevish; testy: tetchy.
  • In decorative art, made up of small points, broken lines, or touches, and not drawn in a firm unbroken line, as the outline of any pattern.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. difficult to handle; requiring great tact
  • adj. quick to take offense
    • Equivalent
    difficult    hard    sensitive   
    Cross Reference
    stop    affect    injure    impair    caress    annoy    soften    play    taint    reach   
    Variant
    touchiest    touchier   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    peevish    irritable    irascible    techy    sensation    feel    feeling   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    duchy   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    testy    irritable    quarrelsome    irascible    tricky    jumpy    risky    choleric    short-tempered    cranky   
     
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