单词 | touchy |
释义 | touchy/ˈtʌtʃi![]() adjective (touchier, touchiest) 1Easily upset or offended; oversensitive: she’s a little touchy about her age...
Synonyms sensitive, oversensitive, hypersensitive, easily offended, thin-skinned; irritable, tetchy, testy, crotchety, irascible, peevish, querulous, bad-tempered, short-tempered, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, temperamental, snappy, captious, crabbed, prickly, edgy, cross, surly, crusty, curmudgeonly, cantankerous, petulant, waspish, pettish, quarrelsome, splenetic, grumpy, fractious, highly strung, tense informal grouchy, cranky, ratty 1.1(Of an issue or situation) requiring careful handling; delicate: the monarchy has become a touchy topic...
Synonyms delicate, sensitive, tricky, ticklish, thorny, knotty, embarrassing, uncomfortable, uneasy, precarious, chancy, risky, uncertain, contentious, controversial, awkward, difficult informal sticky Derivativestouchily
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Synonyms sensitivity, oversensitivity, hypersensitivity; irritability, tetchiness, testiness, crotchetiness, irascibility, peevishness, querulousness, bad-temperedness, short-temperedness, hot-temperedness, quick-temperedness, snappiness, captiousness, prickliness, edginess, crossness, surliness, crustiness, curmudgeonliness, cantankerousness, petulance, waspishness, pettishness, quarrelsomeness, spleen, grumpiness, fractiousness, tension informal grouchiness, crankiness, rattiness, stickiness OriginEarly 17th century: perhaps an alteration of tetchy, influenced by touch. Rhymes |
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