wired up

ADJECTIVE

touchy

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 wound-up

Antonyms

STRONG

calm collected easy easygoing insensitive laid-back unflappable

Example Sentences

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“But people started to think it was a little weird that I was all wired up with a tube.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 5, 2026

So, some people like barber Damian are still enjoying the novelty of getting wired up only a year and a half ago.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2025

A blueprint could never, for example, dictate how every one of our 86 billion neurons should be wired up.

From Scientific American • May 31, 2023

Fifty years before the arrival of smart-home devices, Midgley wired up the rotary telephone in his bedroom so that a few spins of the dial would operate the sprinklers.

From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2023

What’s more, they had gone a step further, using the messages to figure out how the Enigma rotors were wired up.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

wired up

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