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Pronunciation:
[ tˈʌt͡ʃi], [ tˈʌtʃi], [ t_ˈʌ_tʃ_i]
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Similar words for touchy:
- angry (adjective)
- argumentative (adjective)
- bad-tempered (adjective)
- captious (adjective)
- chancy (adjective)
- changeable (adjective)
- churlish (adjective)
- cross (adjective)
- crucial (adjective)
- crusty (adjective)
- dangerous (adjective)
- delicate (adjective)
- doubtful (adjective)
- easily offended (adjective)
- edgy (adjective)
- embarrassing (adjective)
- excitable (adjective)
- explosive (adjective)
- fractious (adjective)
- fretful (adjective)
- hot (adjective)
- hotheaded (adjective)
- huffy (adjective)
- ill-natured (adjective)
- ill-tempered (adjective)
- insecure (adjective)
- irascible (adjective)
- irritable (adjective)
- moody (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- passionate (adjective)
- peevish (adjective)
- peppery (adjective)
- perilous (adjective)
- petulant (adjective)
- precarious (adjective)
- quarrelsome (adjective)
- risky (adjective)
- sensitive (adjective)
- short-tempered (adjective)
- temperamental (adjective)
- tender (adjective)
- thin-skinned (adjective)
- ticklish (adjective)
- touch-and-go (adjective)
- tricky (adjective)
- twitchy (adjective)
- unapt (adjective)
- unpredictable (adjective)
- unsafe (adjective)
- urgent (adjective)
- delicate (noun)
- feisty (noun)
- huffy (noun)
- irritable (noun)
- litigiousness (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
- cross
- embarrassing
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Touchy:
adj.
• angry (adjective) • argumentative (adjective)- polemical,
- spikier,
- scrappy,
- having a chip on one's shoulder,
- fire eating,
- salty,
- spikiest,
- spiky,
- opinionated,
- polemic,
- fire-eating.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- most hairtrigger,
- hair trigger,
- more hairtrigger,
- most hair-trigger,
- hair-trigger,
- most hair trigger,
- more hair-trigger,
- more hair trigger.
- 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.
- jumpy,
- irritable,
- Perturbable,
- cantankerous,
- temperamental,
- surly,
- bundle of nerves,
- wound up,
- quick-tempered,
- cranky,
- wired up,
- grumpy,
- mean,
- volatile,
- crabbed,
- dicey,
- sensitive,
- ornery.
- more overstrung,
- over-strung,
- ill ease,
- most overstrung,
- ex-cited,
- up tight,
- ex cited,
- overstrung,
- up-tight,
- over strung,
- highstrung,
- high strung.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- most aroused,
- in-tenser,
- in flamed,
- more aroused,
- in-tensest,
- in-tense,
- in tenser,
- in tense,
- in-flamed.
- more shortfused,
- more short-fused,
- most short-fused,
- most short fused,
- shortfused,
- most shortfused,
- more short fused.
- 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,
- 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.
- 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.
- snappish,
- grumbling,
- spiteful,
- fretful,
- acerbic,
- bitchy,
- tart,
- caustic,
- petty,
- easily offended,
- acrimonious,
- bellicose,
- acid,
- Fretting,
- bitter,
- sour.
- 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.
- 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.
- sharptempered,
- more sharp-tempered,
- most sharp-tempered,
- sharp tempered,
- more sharp tempered,
- most sharptempered,
- most sharp tempered,
- more sharptempered.
- dis-pleased,
- most pouting,
- more crybaby,
- un-gracious,
- whinier,
- whiniest,
- most crybaby,
- more pouting,
- whiny,
- dis pleased,
- un gracious.
- 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.
- 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.
- un-aptest,
- un-apter,
- un apter,
- un-likely,
- un-likelier,
- un likely,
- un likelier,
- un aptest,
- un likeliest.
- 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.
• delicate (noun) • feisty (noun) • huffy (noun) • irritable (noun) • litigiousness (noun) • Other relevant words: (noun)v.
• Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
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•
- 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.
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•
- choleric,
- hypersensitive,
- finicky,
- bilious,
- prissy,
- miserable,
- demanding,
- uptight,
- prim,
- persnickety,
- sensibility,
- ratty,
- bad-tempered,
- foul.
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- particular.
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•
- sensitivity.
- 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.
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Equivalence
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Adjective
delicate.
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Independent
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Adjective
difficult, insensitive, prone, responsive, sensitized.
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sensitive, susceptible, tricky, vulnerable.
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