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touchy
Synonyms and Antonyms of touchy
- watch what you say around him, as he's very touchy about every little thing
hypersensitive, oversensitive, sensitive, supersensitive, tender
choleric, crabby, cranky, cross, cross-grained, crotchety, grouchy, grumpy, irascible, irritable, peevish, perverse, pettish, petulant, prickly, quick-tempered, raspy, ratty, short-tempered, snappish, snappy, snarky, snippety, snippy, stroppy [British], stuffy, testy, waspish
bearish, bilious, cantankerous, curmudgeonly, disagreeable, dyspeptic, ill-humored, ill-natured, ill-tempered, ornery, querulous, surly
- money is a touchy subject for many people and shouldn't be discussed casually
- the experiment involves the use of some touchy chemicals, so caution is required
burnable, combustible, combustive, fiery, flammable, ignitable (also ignitible), inflammable
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