Synonyms of touchy
- 1 Syllable
- mean, cross
- 2 Syllables
- urgent, twitchy, tetchier, trickiest, grumpy, trickier, huffy, moody, surly, cranky, edgier, snappier, captious, crucial, waspy, huffish, snappish, dicey, ticklish, fractious, crabbed, grousing, fretful, peevish, whiny, chancier, tricky, jumpy, crustier, testy, crosser, parlous, crusty, grouchy, bearish, moodier, churlish, spiky, chancy, tetchy, huffier, riskier, spikier, snappy, pettish, ructious, edgy, doubtful, risky, uptight
- 3 Syllables
- polemic, choleric, petulant, hotheaded, ornery, called-for, cavillous, perilous, hazardous, fire-eating, precarious, jeopardous, touch-and-go, unpoised, dangerous, splenetic, volcanic, cat-and-dog, thin-skinned, unsafe, querulous, fulminant
- 4 Syllables
- ill-natured, sensitive, ill-tempered, irascible, cantankerous, bad-tempered, perturbable, quick-tempered, delicate, excitable, quarrelsome, top-priority, unconfident, exceptive, ill-humored, polemical, volatile, litigiousness, dangersome, explosive, irritable, embarrassing, tempersome, unassured, insecure, impugnable, eruptive
- 5 Syllables
- unpredictable, temperamental, emotionable, detonative
- 6 Syllables
- argumentative, oversensitive, hypersensitive, ultrasensitive