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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. quick to take offense;
[syn: huffy, thin-skinned, feisty, touchy]

2. difficult to handle; requiring great tact;
- Example: "delicate negotiations with the big powers";"hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter"
- Example: "a touchy subject"
[syn: delicate, ticklish, touchy]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Touchy \Touch"y\, a. [For techy, tetchy.] Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster] It may be said of Dryden that he was at no time touchy about personal attacks. --Saintsbury. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

touchy adj 1: quick to take offense [syn: huffy, thin-skinned, feisty, touchy] 2: difficult to handle; requiring great tact; "delicate negotiations with the big powers";"hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter"; "a touchy subject" [syn: delicate, ticklish, touchy]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

104 Moby Thesaurus words for "touchy": agitable, allergic, anaphylactic, argumentative, bad-tempered, bearish, cantankerous, captious, chancy, choleric, close, contentious, crabbed, crabby, cranky, critical, cross, crusty, dangerous, delicate, dicey, disputatious, dyspeptic, edgy, emotional, emotionally unstable, empathetic, empathic, eruptive, excitable, explosive, frightening, goosy, grouchy, hair-raising, hairbreadth, hairy, harmful, hazardous, high-mettled, high-spirited, high-strung, highly emotional, hot-tempered, hyperesthetic, hyperpathic, hypersensitive, inflammable, irascible, irritable, itchy, mettlesome, miffy, nerve-racking, nervous, on slippery ground, on thin ice, overrefined, oversensible, oversensitive, overtender, parlous, passible, peevish, perturbable, pettish, petulant, precarious, prickly, querulous, quick-tempered, ratty, refined, responsive, risky, sensitive, short-tempered, skittish, slippery, slippy, snappish, snarling, splenetic, startlish, supersensitive, sympathetic, tactful, temperamental, tender, tense, terrifying, testy, tetchy, thin-skinned, ticklish, touch-and-go, tricky, uncertain, unpredictable, unsafe, unsure, volatile, volcanic, waspish