Touchy

Adjective

 * 1)  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.
 * 1)  Easily offended; oversensitive; ticklish.
 * He can be very touchy when you talk about his cat, so be as tactful as possible.

Related terms

 * touchy-feely

Adverbs for Touchy
absurdly; unreasonably; vexatiously; significantly; arrogantly; indescribably; nervously; cholerically; churlishly; pugnaciously; curiously; strangely; inexplicably; unaccountably; inherently; naturally; unbecomingly; unpleasantly; disagreeably; atrociously; painfully; distressingly; ridiculously.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From touch: + -y#Etymology 1:

Translations

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 * German: gereizt