Synonyms for Touchy:

• adj.

  •angry (adjective)
  • passionate.
  •argumentative (adjective)
  • polemical,
  • spikier,
  • scrappy,
  • having a chip on one's shoulder,
  • fire eating,
  • salty,
  • spikiest,
  • spiky,
  • opinionated,
  • polemic,
  • fire-eating.
  •bad-tempered (adjective)
  • ill-natured.
  •captious (adjective)
  • fault finding,
  • most deprecating,
  • more caviling,
  • most cavillous,
  • overcritical,
  • nit picking,
  • more cavillous,
  • most nit picking,
  • more exceptive,
  • ex acting,
  • more nit-picking,
  • most exceptive,
  • most nit-picking,
  • ex-acting,
  • most caviling,
  • over-critical,
  • more deprecating,
  • hyper critical,
  • more nit picking,
  • hyper-critical.
  •chancy (adjective)
  • iffy,
  • Fluctuant.
  •changeable (adjective)
  • unpredictable.
  •churlish (adjective)
  • most cussed,
  • more cussed,
  • most cloddish,
  • more lowbred,
  • most clodhopping,
  • more unneighborly,
  • un neighborly,
  • un polished,
  • un civil,
  • un civilized,
  • un-cultured,
  • un cultured,
  • dis courteous,
  • un-sociable,
  • more clodhopping,
  • un mannerly,
  • most lowbred,
  • un-civil,
  • un-mannerly,
  • un-civilized,
  • dis-courteous,
  • most unneighborly,
  • un-neighborly.
  •cross (adjective)
  • splenetic,
  • more ill-humored,
  • most splenetic,
  • more illhumored,
  • quick tempered,
  • illhumored,
  • ill-humored,
  • most ill humored,
  • most illhumored,
  • ill humored,
  • dis agreeable,
  • most vexed,
  • out humor,
  • dis-agreeable,
  • quicktempered,
  • more vexed,
  • more ill humored,
  • most pettish,
  • faultfinding,
  • more pettish,
  • most ill-humored,
  • more splenetic.
  •crucial (adjective)
  • high priority,
  • more highpriority,
  • most climatic,
  • more high priority,
  • pivotal,
  • more necessary,
  • more high-priority,
  • highpriority,
  • more climatic,
  • more showdown,
  • most high-priority,
  • most high priority,
  • most highpriority,
  • most showdown,
  • touch go.
  •crusty (adjective)
  • more vinegary,
  • most crabbed,
  • most vinegary,
  • most snarling,
  • more snarling.
  •dangerous (adjective)
  • on collision course,
  • shaky,
  • unsafe,
  • dangersome,
  • portentous,
  • Jeopardous,
  • perilous,
  • parlous.
  •delicate (adjective)
  • most hairtrigger,
  • hair trigger,
  • more hairtrigger,
  • most hair-trigger,
  • hair-trigger,
  • most hair trigger,
  • more hair-trigger,
  • more hair trigger.
  •doubtful (adjective)
  • in-conclusive,
  • in-definite,
  • un-easy,
  • un decided,
  • in definite,
  • most doubtable,
  • in determinate,
  • in decisive,
  • hazy,
  • un-confirmed,
  • more impugnable,
  • in-determinate,
  • impugnable,
  • in conclusive,
  • unconfirmed,
  • in-distinct,
  • most impugnable,
  • un easiest,
  • far fetched,
  • un easier,
  • dis reputable,
  • un-easiest,
  • most unconfirmed,
  • un sure,
  • more doubtable,
  • in-decisive,
  • un-sure,
  • un-settled,
  • un-decided,
  • un settled,
  • un-easier,
  • un easy,
  • dubitable,
  • dis-reputable,
  • un confirmed,
  • in distinct,
  • uneasy,
  • more unconfirmed.
  •easily offended (adjective)
  • jumpy,
  • irritable,
  • Perturbable,
  • cantankerous,
  • temperamental,
  • surly,
  • bundle of nerves,
  • wound up,
  • quick-tempered,
  • cranky,
  • wired up,
  • grumpy,
  • mean,
  • volatile,
  • crabbed,
  • dicey,
  • sensitive,
  • ornery.
  •edgy (adjective)
  • more overstrung,
  • over-strung,
  • ill ease,
  • most overstrung,
  • ex-cited,
  • up tight,
  • ex cited,
  • overstrung,
  • up-tight,
  • over strung,
  • highstrung,
  • high strung.
  •embarrassing (adjective)
  • in convenient,
  • ex-asperating,
  • in commodious,
  • ex asperating,
  • most distracting,
  • dis-commodious,
  • most compromising,
  • dis-concerting,
  • un seemlier,
  • most discomfiting,
  • un-seemlier,
  • most disconcerting,
  • more disconcerting,
  • most rattling,
  • un seemliest,
  • up-setting,
  • most exasperating,
  • more discomfiting,
  • more distracting,
  • most bewildering,
  • un seemly,
  • un-seemly,
  • more compromising,
  • un-seemliest,
  • more troubling,
  • unpropitious,
  • more bewildering,
  • dis concerting,
  • in-convenient,
  • more mortifying,
  • un propitious,
  • most troubling,
  • most mortifying,
  • troubling,
  • more exasperating,
  • in opportune,
  • inconvenient,
  • in-commodious,
  • more discommoding,
  • be-wildering,
  • un-propitious,
  • most discommodious,
  • un-comfortable,
  • up setting,
  • un comfortable,
  • more discommodious,
  • be wildering,
  • dis commodious,
  • in-opportune,
  • most discommoding,
  • more rattling.
  •excitable (adjective)
  • brittle,
  • hot-tempered,
  • hysterical,
  • volcanic,
  • fiery,
  • ardent,
  • emotional,
  • short fused,
  • nervous,
  • reckless,
  • excitable,
  • mercurial,
  • tempestuous,
  • Alarmable,
  • fragile,
  • fidgety,
  • rash,
  • over-zealous,
  • galvanic,
  • combustible,
  • high-strung,
  • overzealous,
  • stormy,
  • impulsive,
  • Agitable.
  •explosive (adjective)
  • more detonative,
  • more detonating,
  • most fulminating,
  • raging,
  • most detonative,
  • most detonating,
  • un controllable,
  • most fulminant,
  • more fulminating,
  • ex plosive,
  • un-controllable,
  • more convulsive,
  • more eruptive,
  • most eruptive,
  • at boiling point,
  • ex-plosive,
  • most convulsive,
  • more fulminant.
  •fractious (adjective)
  • fractious.
  •fretful (adjective)
  • worried,
  • wreckest,
  • out sorts.
  •hot (adjective)
  • most aroused,
  • in-tenser,
  • in flamed,
  • more aroused,
  • in-tensest,
  • in-tense,
  • in tenser,
  • in tense,
  • in-flamed.
  •hotheaded (adjective)
  • more shortfused,
  • more short-fused,
  • most short-fused,
  • most short fused,
  • shortfused,
  • most shortfused,
  • more short fused.
  •huffy (adjective)
  • more moping,
  • more nettled,
  • ex asperated,
  • most huffish,
  • more huffish,
  • more exasperated,
  • most exasperated,
  • more irked,
  • more piqued,
  • most nettled,
  • most piqued,
  • ex-asperated,
  • most irked,
  • most moping,
  • most riled,
  • more riled,
  • miffed.
  •ill-natured (adjective)
  • ill natured,
  • un-friendliest,
  • tempersome,
  • un-friendlier,
  • illnatured,
  • un-kindest,
  • un friendlier,
  • un-kind,
  • un kind,
  • dis obliging,
  • un kindest,
  • un-friendly,
  • un-kinder,
  • dis-obliging,
  • un pleasant,
  • un-pleasant,
  • un friendliest,
  • more tempersome,
  • un kinder,
  • most tempersome.
  •ill-tempered (adjective)
  • bearish.
  •insecure (adjective)
  • more questioning,
  • in-securest,
  • most choked,
  • up in air,
  • un confident,
  • most unassured,
  • up air,
  • un-confident,
  • in securest,
  • un-assured,
  • more unpoised,
  • more unconfident,
  • up the air,
  • most delphic,
  • in securer,
  • un assured,
  • un poised,
  • more delphic,
  • in secure,
  • in-securer,
  • in-secure,
  • un-poised,
  • most questioning,
  • more choked.
  •irascible (adjective)
  • ogrer,
  • ogrest.
  •irritable (adjective)
  • snappish,
  • grumbling,
  • spiteful,
  • fretful,
  • acerbic,
  • bitchy,
  • tart,
  • caustic,
  • petty,
  • easily offended,
  • acrimonious,
  • bellicose,
  • acid,
  • Fretting,
  • bitter,
  • sour.
  •moody (adjective)
  • down mouth,
  • in huff,
  • down the dumps,
  • down dumps,
  • introspective,
  • down the mouth.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • Cavillous,
  • unconfident,
  • out-of-sorts,
  • fraught with danger,
  • on the spot,
  • all heart,
  • Clodhopping,
  • detonative,
  • down in the dumps,
  • urgent,
  • insecure,
  • hottempered,
  • ticklish,
  • lowbred,
  • climatic,
  • life and death,
  • in a huff,
  • peppery,
  • going for broke,
  • explosive,
  • convulsive,
  • short-fused,
  • churlish,
  • hot,
  • irascible,
  • precarious,
  • a bundle of nerves,
  • nit-picking,
  • edgy,
  • petulant,
  • crusty,
  • over-wrought,
  • captious,
  • chancy,
  • thin-skinned,
  • out of humor,
  • huffish,
  • bleeding-heart,
  • down in dumps,
  • moody,
  • hotblooded,
  • crucial,
  • top-priority,
  • on slippery ground,
  • on thin ice,
  • Unapt,
  • hanging by thread,
  • out on limb,
  • up for grabs,
  • tender,
  • tricky,
  • steamed-up,
  • vinegary,
  • wrecker,
  • Discommodious,
  • doubtful,
  • unneighborly,
  • delicate,
  • at the boiling point,
  • gladiatorial,
  • twitchy,
  • lovey dovey,
  • easily provoked,
  • lovey-dovey,
  • over critical,
  • pettish,
  • quarrelsome,
  • all wound up,
  • sharp-tempered,
  • keyed up,
  • dissentious,
  • cloddish,
  • not a prayer,
  • warrer,
  • in the doldrums,
  • hazardous,
  • hurry-up,
  • cat-and-dog,
  • loaded,
  • peevish,
  • grousing,
  • wide open,
  • in doldrums,
  • all shook up,
  • Doubtable,
  • playing with fire,
  • hairtrigger,
  • eruptive,
  • short-tempered,
  • high-priority,
  • ructious,
  • prickly,
  • Exceptive,
  • dangerous,
  • touch-and-go,
  • unassured,
  • fulminant,
  • on a limb,
  • peckish,
  • waspy,
  • down in mouth,
  • steamed up,
  • off deep end,
  • hotheaded.
  •passionate (adjective)
  • most steamed up,
  • steamedup,
  • most steamed-up,
  • more steamed-up,
  • more steamed up,
  • most steamedup.
  •peevish (adjective)
  • more whining,
  • most out of sorts,
  • more out-of-sorts,
  • most grousing,
  • more out of sorts,
  • most out-of-sorts,
  • more growling,
  • more grousing,
  • most whining,
  • most growling,
  • waspiest,
  • waspier.
  •peppery (adjective)
  • sharptempered,
  • more sharp-tempered,
  • most sharp-tempered,
  • sharp tempered,
  • more sharp tempered,
  • most sharptempered,
  • most sharp tempered,
  • more sharptempered.
  •perilous (adjective)
  • un steadiest,
  • un steady,
  • un-steadiest,
  • un-steadier,
  • un steadier.
  •petulant (adjective)
  • dis-pleased,
  • most pouting,
  • more crybaby,
  • un-gracious,
  • whinier,
  • whiniest,
  • most crybaby,
  • more pouting,
  • whiny,
  • dis pleased,
  • un gracious.
  •precarious (adjective)
  • out limb,
  • out a limb,
  • pre-carious,
  • pre carious,
  • un-reliable,
  • un reliable,
  • hanging by a thread.
  •quarrelsome (adjective)
  • more ructious,
  • more dissentious,
  • most cat and dog,
  • most gladiatorial,
  • cat and dog,
  • most ructious,
  • most cat-and-dog,
  • more cat-and-dog,
  • more gladiatorial,
  • warrest,
  • have chip shoulder,
  • more brawling,
  • have chip on shoulder,
  • most dissentious,
  • more cat and dog,
  • most brawling.
  •risky (adjective)
  • off the deep end,
  • end-angered,
  • on spot,
  • not prayer,
  • end angered,
  • wideopen.
  •sensitive (adjective)
  • tuned in,
  • sensatory,
  • turned on to,
  • touchy feely,
  • sensory,
  • emotionable,
  • easily affected,
  • sensile.
  •short-tempered (adjective)
  • more peckish,
  • most peckish,
  • shorttempered,
  • short tempered,
  • hot blooded.
  •temperamental (adjective)
  • easily upset,
  • hyper,
  • head-strong,
  • in bad mood.
  •tender (adjective)
  • more caring,
  • more bruised,
  • most lovey dovey,
  • bleedingheart,
  • most bleedingheart,
  • most bleeding-heart,
  • most lovey-dovey,
  • most caring,
  • more loveydovey,
  • more bleeding heart,
  • most loveydovey,
  • more bleedingheart,
  • more lovey dovey,
  • most bruised,
  • loveydovey,
  • more bleeding-heart,
  • most bleeding heart,
  • more lovey-dovey.
  •thin-skinned (adjective)
  • easily hurt,
  • ultrasensitive.
  •ticklish (adjective)
  • in-constant.
  •touch-and-go (adjective)
  • touch and go.
  •tricky (adjective)
  • quirky.
  •twitchy (adjective)
  • a bundle nerves.
  •unapt (adjective)
  • un-aptest,
  • un-apter,
  • un apter,
  • un-likely,
  • un-likelier,
  • un likely,
  • un likelier,
  • un aptest,
  • un likeliest.
  •unpredictable (adjective)
  • un foreseeable,
  • un-predictable,
  • un predictable,
  • more fluctuating,
  • from left field,
  • un-foreseeable.
  •unsafe (adjective)
  • un-trustworthy,
  • un safe,
  • un-safe,
  • un-safest,
  • on limb,
  • un-safer,
  • un safest,
  • un safer.
  •urgent (adjective)
  • more hurry up,
  • most hurry-up,
  • most calledfor,
  • more called for,
  • more top-priority,
  • top priority,
  • more calledfor,
  • most toppriority,
  • fore-most,
  • more hurryup,
  • more hurry-up,
  • in-dispensable,
  • para mount,
  • most hurry up,
  • more impelling,
  • toppriority,
  • hurryup,
  • calledfor,
  • most impelling,
  • most called for,
  • most top priority,
  • most called-for,
  • re quired,
  • more called-for,
  • para-mount,
  • in dispensable,
  • life death,
  • re-quired,
  • more top priority,
  • more demanded,
  • fore most,
  • most demanded.

• n.

  •
  • troublesome,
  • bad,
  • embarrassing,
  • invidious,
  • adverse,
  • fraught,
  • disruptive,
  • contentious.
  •
  • defensive,
  • testy,
  • feelings.
  •delicate (noun)
  • harmful,
  • risky.
  •feisty (noun)
  • feisty.
  •huffy (noun)
  • huffy.
  •irritable (noun)
  • tense,
  • on-edge.
  •litigiousness (noun)
  • contentiou,
  • fire-eatings,
  • opinionateds,
  • factiou,
  • combatives,
  • fireeatings,
  • fire eatings,
  • controversials,
  • disputatiou,
  • litigiou,
  • quarrelsomes,
  • pugnaciou,
  • salties,
  • spikies,
  • touchies.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • Litigiousness,
  • scrappies,
  • Contraries,
  • scrappiness,
  • characteristic,
  • belligerents.

• v.

  •Other relevant words: (verb)
  • behaviour,
  • cross.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • judgmental,
  • pedantry,
  • curmudgeonly,
  • oversensitive,
  • prudish,
  • querulous,
  • hypercritical,
  • nagging,
  • pedantic,
  • censorious,
  • crotchety,
  • crabby,
  • unforgiving,
  • choosy,
  • Chippy,
  • snappy,
  • prude,
  • Hot-headed,
  • obstreperous,
  • pernickety,
  • jaundiced,
  • fussy,
  • insatiable,
  • high-maintenance,
  • prudery,
  • squeamish,
  • grouchy,
  • tetchy,
  • picky.
  •
  • choleric,
  • hypersensitive,
  • finicky,
  • bilious,
  • prissy,
  • miserable,
  • demanding,
  • uptight,
  • prim,
  • persnickety,
  • sensibility,
  • ratty,
  • bad-tempered,
  • foul.
  •
  • particular.
  •
  • sensitivity.
  •cross
  • ill-tempered.
  •embarrassing
  • awkward.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • spunky,
  • sulky,
  • charged,
  • disputatious,
  • mettlesome,
  • violent,
  • hard,
  • worrying,
  • dyspeptic,
  • pugnacious,
  • all a-twitter,
  • terrifying,
  • abrupt,
  • mortifying,
  • excited,
  • problematical,
  • in a tizzy,
  • hasty,
  • fierce,
  • cross-grained,
  • peremptory,
  • gruff,
  • animated,
  • finical,
  • unsure,
  • edge,
  • slippery,
  • uncertain,
  • nettlesome,
  • eager,
  • disconcerting,
  • problematic,
  • distressing,
  • impassioned,
  • anaphylactic,
  • Questioned,
  • fickle,
  • bad-natured,
  • questionable,
  • distracted,
  • inflammable,
  • dodgy,
  • rude,
  • unsteady,
  • supersensitive,
  • Cavilling,
  • nerve-wracking,
  • annoyed,
  • heated,
  • trick,
  • shameful,
  • quick,
  • zealous,
  • susceptible,
  • mad,
  • sore,
  • lively,
  • disputed,
  • argumentative,
  • disputable,
  • complicated,
  • shirty,
  • belligerent,
  • jittery,
  • overwrought,
  • overexcited,
  • restive,
  • feverish,
  • complaining,
  • critical,
  • provocative,
  • Passible,
  • undecided,
  • and Irish cranky,
  • severe,
  • hair-raising,
  • debatable,
  • intense,
  • difficult,
  • furious,
  • knotty,
  • liverish,
  • feeling,
  • Discomfiting,
  • on edge,
  • uncivil,
  • doubted,
  • Susceptive,
  • contrary,
  • sticky,
  • brusque,
  • frightening,
  • refined,
  • attuned,
  • irate,
  • apprehensive,
  • controversial,
  • serious,
  • Vellicative,
  • warm,
  • irritated,
  • allergic,
  • hairy,
  • hot-blooded,
  • in a pique,
  • terse,
  • unreliable,
  • spirited,
  • capricious,
  • Shaming,
  • empathic,
  • Titillative,
  • curt,
  • nasty,
  • over-particular,
  • nerve-racking,
  • trying,
  • impetuous,
  • waspish,
  • Piqued,
  • dicky,
  • highly strung,
  • frantic,
  • fervid,
  • impatient,
  • turbulent,
  • bitching,
  • grumpish,
  • perverse,
  • Snarling,
  • vigorous,
  • tactful,
  • worked up,
  • goosy,
  • keen,
  • rough,
  • Fault-finding,
  • tickling,
  • unpleasant,
  • unsettled,
  • on tenterhooks,
  • humiliating,
  • vexed,
  • short,
  • responsive,
  • Kittle,
  • overrefined,
  • whining,
  • stroppy,
  • unsound,
  • techy,
  • angry,
  • intricate,
  • hairbreadth,
  • ill-humoured,
  • vulnerable,
  • grave,
  • hyperesthetic,
  • overhasty,
  • moot,
  • empathetic,
  • ill at ease,
  • high-keyed,
  • high-spirited,
  • unstable,
  • Startlish,
  • frenetic,
  • tight,
  • bad-humoured,
  • reactive,
  • thorny,
  • carping,
  • in high dudgeon,
  • itchy,
  • restless,
  • frail,
  • slippy,
  • ugly,
  • murmuring,
  • disagreeable,
  • sullen,
  • Short-spoken,
  • criticizing,
  • skittish,
  • combustive,
  • strung up,
  • impressionable,
  • sympathetic,
  • bluff,
  • obnoxious,
  • miffy,
  • plucky,
  • uncomfortable,
  • discourteous,
  • High-mettled,
  • shrewish,
  • rickety,
  • close,
  • complex,
  • fervent,
  • anxious,
  • acidulous.

Paraphrases for Touchy:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    delicate.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    difficult, responsive, insensitive, sensitized, prone.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    sensitive, susceptible, tricky, vulnerable.

Antonyms for Touchy:

• adj.

  • easily offended
    easygoing, safe, laid-back, firm, collected, certain, insensitive, unflappable, calm, sure, strong, easy, stable.
  • Other antonyms:
    noncombustible, incombustible, obliging, well-disposed, thick-skinned, simple, unproblematic, undemanding, fireproof, unconcerned, nonflammable, nonexplosive, noninflammable, painless, effortless, straightforward, uncomplicated, manageable, carefree, happy-go-lucky, forbearing, understanding, relaxed, long-suffering.