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touchy
(encz) | touchy,citlivý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
touchy
(encz) | touchy,choulostivý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
touchy
(encz) | touchy,přecitlivělý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
touchy
(encz) | touchy,senzitivní adj: Zdeněk Brož |
touchy
(encz) | touchy,urážlivý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
touchy
(encz) | touchy,vztahovačný adj: Pino |
Touchy
(gcide) | Touchy \Touch"y\, a. [For techy, tetchy.]
Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire.
[Colloq.]
[1913 Webster]
It may be said of Dryden that he was at no time touchy
about personal attacks. --Saintsbury.
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touchy
(wn) | touchy
adj 1: quick to take offense [syn: huffy, thin-skinned,
feisty, touchy]
2: difficult to handle; requiring great tact; "delicate
negotiations with the big powers";"hesitates to be explicit
on so ticklish a matter"; "a touchy subject" [syn:
delicate, ticklish, touchy] |
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touchy
(encz) | touchy,citlivý adj: Zdeněk Brožtouchy,choulostivý adj: Zdeněk Brožtouchy,přecitlivělý adj: Zdeněk Brožtouchy,senzitivní adj: Zdeněk Brožtouchy,urážlivý adj: Zdeněk Brožtouchy,vztahovačný adj: Pino |
touchy-feely
(encz) | touchy-feely, adj: |
feisty touchy
(gcide) | Ill-natured \Ill`-na"tured\, a.
1. Of habitual bad temper; having an unpleasant disposition;
surly; disagreeable; cross; peevish; fractious; crabbed;
-- of people; as, an ill-natured person; an ill-natured
disagreeable old man. Opposite of good-natured.
[Narrower terms: {argumentative, contentious,
disputatious, disputative, litigious : {atrabilious,
bilious, dyspeptic, liverish : {bristly, prickly,
snappish, splenetic, waspish : {cantankerous, crotchety,
ornery : {choleric, irascible, hotheaded, hot-headed,
hot-tempered, quick-tempered, short-tempered : {crabbed,
crabby, cross, fussy, fussbudgety, grouchy, grumpy,
bad-tempered, ill-tempered}: {cranky, fractious,
irritable, peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, testy,
tetchy, techy : {crusty, curmudgeonly, gruff, ill-humored,
ill-humoured}: {dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose,
saturnine, sour, sullen : {feisty, touchy : {huffish,
sulky}: {misanthropic, misanthropical : {misogynous :
shirty, snorty ill-tempered or annoyed): {shrewish,
nagging, vixenish : surly, ugly ] Also See: {unpleasant.
[1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
2. Dictated by, or indicating, ill nature; spiteful. "The
ill-natured task refuse." --Addison.
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3. Intractable; not yielding to culture. [R.] "Ill-natured
land." --J. Philips.
3. not to one's liking; unpleasant; disagreeable. Opposite of
agreeable. [WordNet sense 2] [Narrower terms: {annoying,
galling, chafing, irritating, nettlesome, pesky,
pestiferous, pestilent, plaguy, plaguey, teasing,
vexatious, vexing}; {nerve-racking, nerve-wracking,
stressful, trying ]
Syn: disagreeable.
[WordNet 1.5] -- Ill`-na"tured*ly, adv. --
Ill`-na"tured*ness, n.
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touchy
(wn) | touchy
adj 1: quick to take offense [syn: huffy, thin-skinned,
feisty, touchy]
2: difficult to handle; requiring great tact; "delicate
negotiations with the big powers";"hesitates to be explicit
on so ticklish a matter"; "a touchy subject" [syn:
delicate, ticklish, touchy] |
touchy-feely
(wn) | touchy-feely
adj 1: (often derogatory) openly expressing love and affection
(especially through physical contact) |
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