Word Meanings - TOUCHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire. It may be said of Dryden that he was at no time touchy about personal attacks. Saintsbury.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TOUCHY)
- Angry
- Wrathful
- irate
- resentful
- ireful
- incensed
- furious
- irascible
- choleric
- moody
- nettled
- touchy
- sullen
- piqued
- excited
- provoked
- raging
- chafed
- hasty
- hot
- exasperated
- indignant
- passionate
- Captious
- Carping
- caviling
- censorious
- hypercritical
- cross
- fault-finding
- critical
- cynical
- petulant
- irritable
- splenetic
- peevish
- fretful
- Fractious
- Snappish
- pettish
- testy
Related words: (words related to TOUCHY)
- RAGULED; RAGGULED
Notched in regular diagonal breaks; -- said of a line, or a bearing having such an edge. - HYPERCRITICALLY
In a hypercritical manner. - NETTLER
One who nettles. Milton. - RAGE
1. Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will. "In great rage of pain." Bacon. He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat. Macaulay. Convulsed with a rage of grief. - CARPET
packing cloth, rug , LL. carpeta, carpita, woolly cloths, fr. L. carpere to pluck, to card ; cf. 1. A heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be - CARPOGENIC
Productive of fruit, or causing fruit to be developed. - CROSSLY
Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor. - CROSS-EXAMINER
One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination. - EXCITO-MOTION
Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory. - CROSSJACK
The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast. - CROSSOPTERYGIAN
Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii. -- n. - CROSSBRED
Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel. - INCENSIVE
Tending to excite or provoke; inflammatory. Barrow. - RAGLAN
A loose overcoat with large sleeves; -- named from Lord Raglan, an English general. - CARPETBAG
A portable bag for travelers; -- so called because originally made of carpet. - EXCITABLE
Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated. - CHAFFERY
Traffic; bargaining. Spenser. - CROSS-STONE
See STAUROTIDE - CRITICALLY
1. In a critical manner; with nice discernment; accurately; exactly. Critically to discern good writers from bad. Dryden. 2. At a crisis; at a critical time; in a situation. place, or condition of decisive consequence; as, a fortification - CROSS-ARMED
With arms crossed. - TETRAGYNIA
A Linnæan order of plants having four styles. - PHRAGMOCONE
The thin chambered shell attached to the anterior end of a belemnite. - MOORAGE
A place for mooring. - OUTRAGEOUS
Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous - COMPASSIONATELY
In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon. - CORAL-RAG
See CORALLIAN - LACROSSE
A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught - INTERAGENT
An intermediate agent. - VORAGINOUS
Pertaining to a gulf; full of gulfs; hence, devouring. Mallet. - ACCOURAGE
To encourage.