touchy

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

touchier

Superlative

touchiest

1.
(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.
2.
(of a person) Easily offended, oversensitive.
He can be very touchy when you talk about his estranged son, so be as tactful as possible.
3.
(informal)Inclined to engage in physical touch.
Đồng nghĩa: handsy, touchy-feely

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

handsytouchy-feelytetchydelicatetouch and goscabrousirritableirascible crankyextremely sensitive tetchy, delicate, touch and go, scabrouseasily irritated tetchy, irritable, irascible, cranky

Trái nghĩa

untouchy

Cùng gốc / liên quan

touchily touchinesstouchy-feely

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Nguồn gốc từ

A variant of earlier tetchy, under influence from some senses of touch (affect, disturb) and simulating touch + -y.