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touchy feely
adjective as in sensitive
Strongest matches
adjective as in susceptive
Weak matches
- acute
- cognizant
- conscious
- delicate
- easily affected
- emotionable
- emotional
- feeling
- fine
- high-strung
- hung up
- hypersensitive
- impressible
- impressionable
- irritable
- keen
- knowing
- nervous
- oversensitive
- perceiving
- perceptive
- precarious
- precise
- psychic
- reactive
- receptive
- responsive
- seeing
- sensatory
- sensible
- sensile
- sensorial
- sensory
- sentient
- supersensitive
- susceptible
- tense
- ticklish
- touchy
- tricky
- tuned-in
- turned on to
- umbrageous
- understanding
- unstable
- wired
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Example Sentences
And so every presidential campaign of the television age has pushed the touchy-feely button.
Nursing is touchy-feely, and America is squeamish about anything touchy-feely outside of sex and art.
It avoids that treacly, touchy-feely ground on which Democrats so love to walk.
And that one who touched so many felt above the touchy-feely-gritty parts of politics?
We are uncomfortable having the “touchy-feely” conversations with our buddies about sadness and guilt and stress.
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On this page you'll find 7 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to touchy-feely, such as: emotional, expressive, gushing, sensitive, tactile, and tactual.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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