Touchy

a.

1.

Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire. It may be said of Dryden that he was at no time touchy about personal attacks. - Saintsbury.

Adj.	1.	touchy - quick to take offense Synonyms: huffy, thin-skinned
	2.	touchy - irritable and looking for trouble; "too touchy to make judicious decisions" Synonyms: feisty

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

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