Usually means: Sensitive to criticism or handling.
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  1. touchy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. touchy: Merriam-Webster
  3. touchy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. touchy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. touchy: Collins English Dictionary
  6. touchy: Vocabulary.com
  7. Touchy, touchy: Wordnik
  8. touchy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. touchy: Wiktionary
  10. touchy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. touchy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. touchy: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. touchy: Dictionary.com
  14. touchy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. touchy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Touchy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Touchy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. touchy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. touchy: Rhymezone
  20. touchy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. touchy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Touchy: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. touchy: FreeDictionary.org
  24. touchy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. touchy: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. touchy: Legal dictionary

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  1. touchy: Idioms

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  1. touchy: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (touchy)

▸ adjective:  (of a situation) Extremely sensitive or volatile; easily disturbed to the point of becoming unstable; requiring caution or tactfulness.
▸ adjective:  (of a person) Easily offended, oversensitive.
▸ adjective:  (informal) Inclined to engage in physical touch.

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thin-skinned, feisty, ill-natured, huffy, sensitive, touchous, ticklish, tetchy, tender-handed, fragile, more...

Opposite:
sensitive, delicate, thin-skinned

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feely, touchy-feely, more...

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Touchy Feely, touchy topic, touchy subject, get touchy, touchy feeling, more...

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Similar:
thin-skinned, feisty, ill-natured, huffy, sensitive, touchous, ticklish, tetchy, tender-handed, fragile, more...

Opposite:
sensitive, delicate, thin-skinned

Types:
feely, touchy-feely, more...

Phrases:
Touchy Feely, touchy topic, touchy subject, get touchy, touchy feeling, opposite of touchy, more...

Colors:
    peach,     blush,     coral,     lavender,     mauve, more...



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