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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective touchy has 2 senses

• touchy(s = adj.all) feisty, huffy, thin-skinned - quick to take offense; Array
Derived form noun touchiness₁

• touchy(s = adj.all) delicate, ticklish - difficult to handle; requiring great tact; "delicate negotiations with the big powers"; "hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter"; "a touchy subject"

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THESAURUS

touchy

agitable, allergic, anaphylactic, argumentative, bad-tempered, bearish, cantankerous, captious, chancy, choleric, close, contentious, crabbed, crabby, cranky, critical, cross, crusty, dangerous, delicate, dicey, disputatious, dyspeptic, edgy, emotional, emotionally unstable, empathetic, empathic, eruptive, excitable, explosive, frightening, goosy, grouchy, hair-raising, hairbreadth, hairy, harmful, hazardous, high-mettled, high-spirited, high-strung, highly emotional, hot-tempered, hyperesthetic, hyperpathic, hypersensitive, inflammable, irascible, irritable, itchy, mettlesome, miffy, nerve-racking, nervous, on slippery ground, on thin ice, overrefined, oversensible, oversensitive, overtender, parlous, passible, peevish, perturbable, pettish, petulant, precarious, prickly, querulous, quick-tempered, ratty, refined, responsive, risky, sensitive, short-tempered, skittish, slippery, slippy, snappish, snarling, splenetic, startlish, supersensitive, sympathetic, tactful, temperamental, tender, tense, terrifying, testy, tetchy, thin-skinned, ticklish, touch-and-go, tricky, uncertain, unpredictable, unsafe, unsure, volatile, volcanic, waspish

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Irascibility

N irascibility, irascibleness, temper, crossness, susceptibility, procacity, petulance, irritability, tartness, acerbity, protervity, pugnacity, excitability, bad temper, fiery temper, crooked temper, irritable, temper, genus irritabile, hot blood, ill humor, asperity, churlishness, huff, a word and a blow, Sir Fretful Plagiary, brabbler, Tartar, shrew, vixen, virago, termagant, dragon, scold, Xantippe, porcupine, spitfire, fire eater, fury, irascible, bad-tempered, ill-tempered, irritable, susceptible, excitable, thin-skinned, fretful, fidgety, on the fret, hasty, overhasty, quick, warm, hot, testy, touchy, techy, tetchy, like touchwood, like tinder, huffy, pettish, petulant, waspish, snappish, peppery, fiery, passionate, choleric, shrewish, sudden and quick in quarrel, querulous, captious, moodish, quarrelsome, contentious, disputatious, pugnacious, cantankerous, exceptious, restiff, churlish, cross, cross as crabs, cross as two sticks, cross as a cat, cross as a dog, cross as the tongs, fractious, peevish, acari=atre, in a bad temper, sulky, angry, resentful, resentive, vindictive, Int, pish!, a vieux comptes nouvelles disputes, quamvis tegatur proditur vultu furor, vino tortus et ira.

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