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touchy-feely

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of touchy-feely

showing feeling freely

she is too touchy-feely and he is too stiff-upper-lip for their relationship to ever work out

Synonyms of touchy-feely

demonstrative, effusive, emotional, uninhibited, unreserved, unrestrained

Words Related to touchy-feely

dramatic, histrionic, hyperemotional, melodramatic, theatrical (also theatric)

gushing, gushy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, schmaltzy, sentimental

communicative, expansive

extroverted (also extraverted), outgoing

affectionate, feeling, intense, loving, passionate, sensitive, soulful, warm

blunt, candid, frank, outspoken, plain

Near Antonyms of touchy-feely

quiet, reticent, silent, taciturn

bashful, modest, retiring, shy

introverted, self-directed

aloof, detached, dispassionate, emotionless, impassive, indifferent, phlegmatic, stolid, unconcerned, unfeeling

chilly, cold, frigid, glacial, hard-boiled, hard-edged, hard-hearted, icy, unfriendly

Antonyms of touchy-feely

inhibited, reserved, restrained, undemonstrative, unemotional

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