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

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

Walking through the hospital doors for the first time wired up with a secret camera, steadying my hand, swallowing my heartbeat, I thought I would surely be discovered.

From BBC • Sep. 28, 2022

This could potentially point to a developmental source of music — maybe “listening to music is one of those things that humans are just wired up to do,” Dr. Mehr said.

From New York Times • Jul. 24, 2022

Carla's head was fretted with clips and bobbypins as if she were wired up for an experiment.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

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