- touchy
- adj1. testy, irritable, tetchy, snappish, petulant, irascible; peevish, huffish, waspish, raspy, peppery, fretful; huffy, edgy, on edge; grumpy, cranky, grouchy, snarling, crotchety, churlish, bearish; gruff, cantankerous, impatient, crabby; splenetic, choleric, dyspeptic, moody, temperamental, out of sorts; high-strung, hot-tempered, hot-blooded, quick-tempered; cross, crusty, crabbed, ill-tempered, ill-humored; fractious, quarrelsome, querulous, contentious, resentful, disputatious, captious; currish, shrewish, vixenish; cynical, perverse, spiteful.2. thin-skinned, sensitive, oversensitive, hypersensitive, supersensitive, easily offended.3. precarious, risky, riskful, full of risk, chancy, Brit. Inf. dicy, hazardous; ticklish, tricky, delicate, Dial. kittle; touch-and-go, uncertain, unsure, unpredictable, unsafe, unsound, unstable, unsteady, shaky, unsecure.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.