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  A portable bag for travelers; -- so called because originally made of carpet.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.