Definitions

touchy

[tuhch-ee] / ˈtʌtʃ i /

ADJECTIVE

easily offended

Synonyms

STRONGEST

delicate dicey hypersensitive jumpy precarious risky sensitive testy ticklish tricky uptight volatile

WEAK

bad-tempered bundle of nerves cantankerous captious choleric crabbed cranky cross grouchy grumpy hazardous irascible irritable mean ornery oversensitive peevish perturbable pettish petulant querulous quick-tempered splenetic surly temperamental thin-skinned unpredictable unsafe wired up wound-up

Antonyms

STRONG

calm collected easy easygoing insensitive laid-back unflappable

Example Sentences

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It is recalling Discovery Craft Box items sold between August 2025 and April 2026, and Touchy Feely Craft Box items - listed as Sensory Craft Box - sold between March 2025 and April 2026.

From BBC • May 1, 2026

Touchy: For people who have taken a tough stance, you and your wife seem especially vulnerable to the opinions of others.

From Washington Post • Nov. 19, 2021

Touchy advertisers did not want their commercials running adjacent to the PSA.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 28, 2020

Touchy about being caricatured as a flighty tycoon, Mr. Bloomberg bristled at any implication that he was flirting with a run for the attention.

From New York Times • Dec. 22, 2019

If Dickens had lived in the neighbourhood of Sir Roger de Coverley he would undoubtedly, like Tom Touchy, have been always “having the law of him.”

From Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

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