Dictionary Definition
touchy adj
1 quick to take offense [syn: huffy, thin-skinned]
2 irritable and looking for trouble; "too touchy
to make judicious decisions" [syn: feisty] [also: touchiest, touchier]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes with: -ʌtʃi
Etymology
From touch + -y#Etymology 1Adjective
- In the context of "of a situation": Extremely sensitive or volatile; easily disturbed to the point of
becoming unstable;
requiring caution or
tactfulness.
- It is an extremely touchy situation, with everybody's patience wearing thin.
- In the context of "of a person": Easily angered.
- He can be very touchy after such a long day, so be gentle.
Translations
sensitive or volatile
- German: heikel
easily angered
- German: gereizt
See also
Extensive Definition
Touchy! is the third single to be released by
a-ha from the
Stay
on These Roads Album
Tracklisting
7"
- Side A, Touchy!
- Side B, Hurry Home
12"
- Side A, Touchy! (Go Go Mix)
- Side B, Hurry Home
Cd
- Track 1, Touchy!
- Track 2, Hurry Home
- Track 3, Hunting High & Low
Video
Touchy!Director: Kevin Moloney
This video was filmed in Deauville and Paris,
France. One of the few ‘happy' a-ha songs, fans have mixed reviews
over its detour from the typical melancholic nature of the band's
music. The video features synchronized swimming, which was a
recently added Olympic sport at that point. Songwriting credits for
‘Touchy!' go to all three band members.
touchy in Spanish: Touchy!
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
agitable, allergic, anaphylactic, argumentative,
bad-tempered, bearish,
cantankerous,
captious, chancy, choleric, close, contentious, crabbed, crabby, cranky, critical, cross, crusty, dangerous, delicate, dicey, disputatious, dyspeptic, edgy, emotional, emotionally
unstable, empathetic,
empathic, eruptive, excitable, explosive, frightening, goosy, grouchy, hair-raising, hairbreadth, hairy, harmful, hazardous, high-mettled,
high-spirited, high-strung, highly emotional, hot-tempered,
hyperesthetic,
hyperpathic,
hypersensitive,
inflammable,
irascible, irritable, itchy, mettlesome, miffy, nerve-racking, nervous, on slippery ground, on
thin ice, overrefined, oversensible, oversensitive, overtender, parlous, passible, peevish, perturbable, pettish, petulant, precarious, prickly, querulous, quick-tempered,
ratty, refined, responsive, risky, sensitive, short-tempered,
skittish, slippery, slippy, snappish, snarling, splenetic, startlish, supersensitive, sympathetic, tactful, temperamental, tender, tense, terrifying, testy, tetchy, thin-skinned, ticklish, touch-and-go,
tricky, uncertain, unpredictable, unsafe, unsure, volatile, volcanic, waspish