touchy 音标拼音: [t'ʌtʃi]
a . 敏感的,烦恼的,易怒的,暴躁的
敏感的,烦恼的,易怒的,暴躁的
touchy adj 1 :
quick to take offense [
synonym : {
huffy }, {
thin -
skinned },
{
feisty }, {
touchy }]
2 :
difficult to handle ;
requiring great tact ; "
delicate negotiations with the big powers ";"
hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter "; "
a touchy subject " [
synonym :
{
delicate }, {
ticklish }, {
touchy }]
Touchy \
Touch "
y \,
a . [
For techy ,
tetchy .]
Peevish ;
irritable ;
irascible ;
techy ;
apt to take fire .
[
Colloq .]
[
1913 Webster ]
It may be said of Dryden that he was at no time touchy about personal attacks . --
Saintsbury .
[
1913 Webster ]
104 Moby Thesaurus words for "
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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