touchy

Other forms of touchy

comparative or superlative

touchier

comparative or superlative

touchiest

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about touchy

What does touchy mean?

touchy means "quick to take offense". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in touchy?

touchy has 2 syllables: touc-hy. The stress falls on "touc". In IPA it is /ˈtʌtʃi/.

What is another word for touchy?

Close synonyms include huffy, thin-skinned, feisty, delicate, ticklish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is touchy a common word?

touchy is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.