touchy
Meaning of touchy
adjective
- easily upset or offended; oversensitive.
she's a little touchy about her age
early 17th century: perhaps an alteration of tetchy, influenced by touch.
Information about touchy
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of touchy
touchy
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- touchy is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
touchy synonyms
Meaning huffy:
Meaning delicate:
Meaning easily offended or upset:
Meaning (especially of a person or an instrument) excessively sensitive:
Meaning having extreme physical sensitivity to particular substances or conditions:
Meaning having or showing a tendency to be easily annoyed:
Meaning irritable and bad-tempered:
Meaning easily irritated; impatient and somewhat bad-tempered:
Meaning irritable:
Meaning having or showing a tendency to be easily angered:
Meaning having or showing an irritable disposition:
Meaning complaining in a rather petulant or whining manner:
Meaning (of a person) liable to unreasonable changes of mood:
Meaning irritable and inclined to speak sharply; snappish:
Meaning tending to find fault or raise petty objections:
Meaning bad-tempered:
Meaning (of a person) ready to take offence:
Meaning tense, nervous, or irritable:
Meaning annoyed:
Meaning bad-tempered and unfriendly:
Meaning (especially of an old person) easily irritated:
Meaning (especially of an old person) bad-tempered and negative:
Meaning bad-tempered, argumentative, and uncooperative:
Meaning (of a person or their manner) childishly sulky or bad-tempered:
Meaning readily expressing anger or irritation:
Meaning (of a person or their behaviour) childishly bad-tempered and petulant:
Meaning given to or characterized by quarrelling:
Meaning bad-tempered; spiteful:
Meaning bad-tempered and irritable:
Meaning (typically of children) irritable and quarrelsome:
Meaning (especially of a muscle) stretched tight or rigid:
Meaning irritable and bad-tempered; grumpy; complaining:
Meaning bad-tempered; irritable:
Meaning resembling or characteristic of a rat:
touchy antonyms
Meaning not showing or feeling nervousness, anger, or other strong emotions:
Meaning friendly, good-natured, or easy to talk to:
Translation of touchy
- Italian: suscettibile, permaloso
- Spanish: susceptible
- German: übelnehmerisch
- French: ombrageux
- Portuguese: irritadiço
Anagrams of touchy
Words that rhyme with touchy
Cauchy, archduchy, duchy, Hluchy, Allamuchy, Grouchy, acouchy, couchy, grouchy, pouchy, slouchy, souchy, unslouchy, cleruchy, yuchy
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