Word Study
itchy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective itchy has 2 senses
- itchy(s = adj.all) antsy, fidgety, fretful - nervous and unable to relax; "a constant fretful stamping of hooves"; "a restless child"
- itchy(s = adj.all) Array - causing an irritating cutaneous sensation; being affect with an itch; "he had an itchy toe from the mosquito bite" Derived forms noun itch3, noun itchiness1
CIDE DICTIONARY
itchy, a.
- Infected with the itch. Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- Having an itching sensation. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
itchy, adj. (itchier, itchiest) having or causing an itch.
Idiom
have itchy feet colloq.
1 be restless.
2 have a strong urge to travel.
1 be restless.
2 have a strong urge to travel.
Derivative
itchiness n.
THESAURUS
itchy
acquisitive, agape, agog, all agog, allergic, anaphylactic, burning with curiosity, consumed with curiosity, curious, delicate, desirous, empathetic, empathic, ghoulish, goosy, gossipy, grabby, grasping, greedy, hyperesthetic, hyperpathic, hypersensitive, inquiring, inquisitive, interested, irritable, itching, morbid, morbidly curious, nervous, open-eyed, openmouthed, overcurious, overrefined, oversensible, oversensitive, overtender, passible, prehensile, prickly, prurient, quizzical, refined, responsive, scopophiliac, sensitive, skittish, supercurious, supersensitive, sympathetic, tactful, tender, tetchy, thin-skinned, ticklish, touchy, voyeuristic
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