'Touchy' definitions:
Definition of 'touchy'
(from WordNet)
adjective
adjective
Definition of 'Touchy'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'touchy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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