touchy as an adjective: - 1
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touchy
adjective
1 touchy
Quick to take offense.
synonyms: feisty, huffy, thin-skinned.
Roget 901:
irascible;
bad-tempered,
ill-tempered;
irritable,
susceptible;
excitable
etc.
825;
thin-skinned
etc.
(sensitive)
822;
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"
[As You Like It].
querulous,
captious,
moodish†;
quarrelsome,
contentious,
disputatious;
pugnacious
etc.
(bellicose)
720;
cantankerous,
exceptious†;
restiff
etc.
(perverse)
901.1†;
churlish
etc.
(discourteous)
895.
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
etc.
901.1;
angry
etc.
900.
resentful,
resentive†;
vindictive
etc.
919.
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2 touchy
Difficult to handle; requiring great tact:
— A touchy subject.
synonyms: delicate, ticklish.
Polish: drażliwy
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