Thesaurus / ticklish
FEEDBACKHow to use ticklish in a sentence
I ran my thumb across my sole and felt a jolting, ticklish sensation I later learned meant I had nerve damage.
DO FKTS MISS THE POINT?COBRIENDECEMBER 7, 2021OUTSIDE ONLINEHere am I, trying to get you out of a mighty ticklish situation, and you go and get funny.
FIFTY CONTEMPORARY ONE-ACT PLAYSVARIOUSHe knows a lot of useful stuff, and these are ticklish times.'
SARAH'S SCHOOL FRIENDMAY BALDWINHe settled back on his haunches and gave a little thought to the matter, and understood that he had a ticklish job ahead of him.
BLOW THE MAN DOWNHOLMAN DAYIt was a ticklish business recovering the sledge which hung suspended in the crevasse.
THE HOME OF THE BLIZZARDDOUGLAS MAWSONIt164 would have been a ticklish business to make one's way along the deck then, he thought.
TOM SLADE WITH THE COLORSPERCY K. FITZHUGHI have been in many ticklish places, but I never got into one where I was worse stumped than I was that night.
SHADOW, THE MYSTERIOUS DETECTIVEPOLICE CAPTAIN HOWARD"Bread sauce is so ticklish; a simmer too much and it's clean done for," Mrs. Baker said with a voice of great solicitude.
ORLEY FARMANTHONY TROLLOPEBrowning says that it is a ticklish matter to play with souls, but Lady Ellington did not stand convicted over this.
THE ANGEL OF PAINE. F. BENSONIf there was the least suspicion of a sea over the reef it was indeed a ticklish task landing or embarking stores and men.
THE PILLAR OF LIGHTLOUIS TRACYWORDS RELATED TO TICKLISH
- abstract
- abstruse
- baffling
- bewildering
- complex
- confounding
- confusing
- dark
- deep
- delicate
- enigmatic
- enigmatical
- entangled
- esoteric
- formidable
- hard to explain
- hard to solve
- hidden
- inexplicable
- intricate
- involved
- knotty
- labyrinthine
- loose
- meandering
- mysterious
- mystical
- mystifying
- nice
- obscure
- obstinate
- paradoxical
- perplexing
- problematical
- profound
- puzzling
- rambling
- subtle
- tangled
- thorny
- ticklish
- troublesome
- unclear
- unfathomable
- unintelligible
- vexing
- awkward
- bewildering
- compromising
- confusing
- delicate
- difficult
- disagreeable
- discomfiting
- discommoding
- discommodious
- disconcerting
- distracting
- distressing
- disturbing
- equivocal
- exasperating
- impossible
- incommodious
- inconvenient
- inopportune
- mortifying
- perplexing
- puzzling
- rattling
- sensitive
- shameful
- sticky
- ticklish
- touchy
- tricky
- troublesome
- troubling
- uncomfortable
- uneasy
- unpropitious
- unseemly
- upsetting
- worrisome
- adventurous
- alarming
- bad
- breakneck
- chancy
- critical
- dangersome
- deadly
- delicate
- dynamite
- exposed
- fatal
- formidable
- hairy
- hazardous
- heavy
- hot
- impending
- impregnable
- insecure
- loaded
- malignant
- menacing
- mortal
- nasty
- on collision course
- parlous
- perilous
- portentous
- precarious
- pressing
- queasy
- risky
- serious
- serpentine
- shaky
- speculative
- terrible
- thorny
- threatening
- ticklish
- touch-and-go
- touchy
- treacherous
- ugly
- unhealthy
- unsafe
- unstable
- urgent
- venturesome
- venturous
- viperous
- vulnerable
- wicked
- blowing hot and cold
- bubbleheaded
- buoyant
- capricious
- changeable
- effervescent
- elastic
- erratic
- expansive
- fickle
- flaky
- flip
- fluctuating
- gaga
- gay
- impulsive
- inconstant
- irregular
- irrepressible
- lighthearted
- lively
- lubricious
- mad
- mobile
- movable
- quicksilver
- resilient
- spirited
- sprightly
- ticklish
- unpredictable
- unstable
- up-and-down
- variable
- volatile
- yo-yo
- alarming
- bad
- breakneck
- chancy
- critical
- dangersome
- deadly
- delicate
- dynamite
- exposed
- fatal
- formidable
- hairy
- heavy
- hot
- impending
- impregnable
- insecure
- jeopardous
- loaded
- malignant
- menacing
- mortal
- nasty
- on collision course
- parlous
- perilous
- portentous
- precarious
- pressing
- queasy
- risky
- serious
- serpentine
- shaky
- speculative
- terrible
- thorny
- threatening
- ticklish
- touch-and-go
- touchy
- treacherous
- ugly
- unhealthy
- unsafe
- unstable
- urgent
- viperous
- vulnerable
- wicked
- abstract
- abstruse
- baffling
- bewildering
- complex
- confounding
- confusing
- dark
- deep
- delicate
- enigmatic
- enigmatical
- entangled
- esoteric
- formidable
- hard to explain
- hard to solve
- hidden
- inexplicable
- intricate
- involved
- knotty
- labyrinthine
- loose
- meandering
- mysterious
- mystical
- mystifying
- nice
- obscure
- obstinate
- paradoxical
- perplexing
- problematical
- profound
- puzzling
- rambling
- subtle
- tangled
- thorny
- ticklish
- troublesome
- unclear
- unfathomable
- unintelligible
- vexing
- alarming
- bad
- breakneck
- chancy
- critical
- dangersome
- deadly
- delicate
- dynamite
- exposed
- fatal
- formidable
- hairy
- heavy
- hot
- impending
- impregnable
- insecure
- jeopardous
- loaded
- malignant
- menacing
- mortal
- nasty
- on collision course
- parlous
- perilous
- portentous
- precarious
- pressing
- queasy
- risky
- serious
- serpentine
- shaky
- speculative
- terrible
- thorny
- threatening
- ticklish
- touch-and-go
- touchy
- treacherous
- ugly
- unhealthy
- unsafe
- unstable
- urgent
- viperous
- vulnerable
- wicked
- adventurous
- alarming
- bad
- breakneck
- chancy
- critical
- dangersome
- deadly
- delicate
- dynamite
- exposed
- fatal
- formidable
- hairy
- hazardous
- heavy
- hot
- impending
- impregnable
- insecure
- jeopardous
- loaded
- malignant
- menacing
- mortal
- nasty
- on collision course
- perilous
- portentous
- precarious
- pressing
- queasy
- risky
- serious
- serpentine
- shaky
- speculative
- terrible
- thorny
- threatening
- ticklish
- touch-and-go
- touchy
- treacherous
- ugly
- unhealthy
- unsafe
- unstable
- urgent
- venturesome
- venturous
- viperous
- vulnerable
- wicked
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.