English-Thai Dictionary

touchy

ADJ กระตุ้น ได้ ง่าย ด้วย การสัมผัส  kra-tuan-dai-ngai-duai-kan-sam-pad

 

touchy

ADJ ที่ โกรธ ง่าย  ฉุนเฉียว ง่าย  irritable sensitive ti-koed-ngai

 

touchy

ADJ ลุกไหม้ ง่าย  flammable luk-mai-ngai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TOUCHY

a.tuch'y. [vulgarly techy. ] Peevish; irritable; irascible; apt to take fire. [Not elegant. ]

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

TOUCHY

Touch "y, a. Etym: [For techy, tetchy. ]

 

Defn: Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire. [Colloq. ] It may be said of Dryden that he was at no time touchy about personal attacks. Saintsbury.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

touchy

touch y |ˈtəCHē ˈtətʃi | ▶adjective ( touchier, touchiest ) (of a person ) oversensitive and irritable. • (of an issue or situation ) requiring careful handling; delicate: the monarchy has become a touchy topic. DERIVATIVES touch i ly |ˈtəCHəlē |adverb, touch i ness noun ORIGIN early 17th cent.: perhaps an alteration of tetchy, influenced by touch .

 

touchy-feely

touch y-feel y |ˈfēlē ˌtətʃiˈfili | ▶adjective informal, often derogatory openly expressing affection or other emotions, esp. through physical contact: touchy-feely guys calling home to talk baby talk to their kids. • characteristic of or relating to such behavior: such touchy-feely topics as employees' personal values.

 

Oxford Dictionary

touchy

touchy |ˈtʌtʃi | ▶adjective ( touchier, touchiest ) easily upset or offended; oversensitive: she's a little touchy about her age. • (of an issue or situation ) requiring careful handling; delicate: the monarchy has become a touchy topic. DERIVATIVES touchily adverb, touchiness noun ORIGIN early 17th cent.: perhaps an alteration of tetchy, influenced by touch .

 

touchy-feely

touchy-feely ▶adjective informal, often derogatory openly expressing affection or other emotions: touchy-feely guys calling home to talk baby talk to their kids. • characteristic of or relating to the open expression of emotion: such touchy-feely topics as employees' personal values.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

touchy

touchy adjective 1 Arnie can be so touchy: sensitive, oversensitive, hypersensitive, easily offended, thin-skinned, high-strung, tense; irritable, dyspeptic, tetchy, testy, crotchety, peevish, waspish, querulous, bad-tempered, petulant, pettish, cranky, fractious, choleric. ANTONYMS affable, good-humored. 2 a touchy subject: delicate, sensitive, tricky, ticklish, thorny, prickly, embarrassing, awkward, difficult; contentious, controversial.

 

touchy-feely

touchy-feely adjective informal 1 a touchy-feely person: demonstrative, affectionate, tender; informal huggy, huggy-kissy. 2 a touchy-feely political initiative: feel-good, sentimental, softhearted, saccharine; ingratiating, toadying; informal warm and fuzzy.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

touchy

touchy adjective 1 she's very touchy about her past | anxiety was making her touchy: sensitive, oversensitive, hypersensitive, easily offended, thin-skinned; irritable, tetchy, testy, crotchety, irascible, peevish, querulous, bad-tempered, short-tempered, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, temperamental, snappy, captious, crabbed, prickly, edgy, cross, surly, crusty, curmudgeonly, cantankerous, petulant, waspish, pettish, quarrelsome, splenetic, grumpy, fractious, highly strung, tense; informal grouchy, cranky, ratty. ANTONYMS calm, affable, good-humoured. 2 a touchy subject: delicate, sensitive, tricky, ticklish, thorny, knotty, embarrassing, uncomfortable, uneasy, precarious, chancy, risky, uncertain, contentious, controversial, awkward, difficult; informal sticky.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

touchy

touch y /tʌ́tʃi /形容詞 1 «…について » 怒りっぽい ; 神経質な ; 過敏な «about » .2 〈問題などが 〉扱いにくい ; 〈情勢などが 〉危険な .3 点火しやすい .t ó uch i ly 副詞 t ó uch i ness 名詞

 

touchy-feely

t ò uchy-f é ely 形容詞 あまりにも感情 [同情 ]的な ; 大げさに愛情を表現する .