touchyadjective
uk/ˈtʌtʃ.i/us/ˈtʌtʃ.i/easily offended or upset:
You have to be careful what you say to Kevin - he's rather touchy.
She's very touchy about the fact that her wife was married before.
needing to be dealt with carefully:
This is a touchy subject/issue/point, so we'd better avoid it.
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Becoming too excited and easily upset
- ant
- antsy
- at the end of your tether idiom 1
- at the end of your tether
- be in a whirl idiom
- explosive
- high-strung
- highly strung
- hot under the collar idiom
- hyper
- hyperactive
- hysteria
- hysterics
- sensitive
- shock
- squeamishly
- stomach
- tether
- thin-skinned
- worked up
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Complicated and difficult to do
touchily
adverb uk/ˈtʌtʃ.əl.i/us/ˈtʌtʃ.əl.i/
touchiness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈtʌtʃ.i.nəs/us/ˈtʌtʃ.i.nəs/
Everyone is aware of the touchiness of the situation (= that it needs to be dealt with carefully).