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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easily hurt |
| Synonyms: | delicate, easily hurt, easily offended, hypersensitive, oversensitive, sensitive, soft, touchy, ultrasensitive, vulnerable |
| Main Entry: | feisty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spirited; touchy |
| Synonyms: | active, alive, bubbly, courageous, difficult, enthusiastic, excitable, fiery, frisky, full of pep, game, gritty, gutsy, gutty, high-strung, hot-blooded, lively, mettlesome, ornery, peppy, quarrelsome, scrappy, sensitive, spunky, thin-skinned, tough, truculent, zestful |
| Main Entry: | fractious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | grouchy, cross |
| Synonyms: | awkward, captious, crabby, disorderly, fretful, froward, huffy, indocile, indomitable, intractable, irritable, mean, ornery*, peevish, perverse, pettish, petulant, querulous, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, scrappy, snappish, testy, thin-skinned, touchy, uncompliant, undisciplined, unmanageable, unruly, wayward, wild |
| Notes: | factious means addicted to forming parties and raise dissensions in opposition to government or the common good, while fractious means tending to cause trouble or unruly or irritable |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, complaisant, happy, nice, patient |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | irascible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crabby |
| Synonyms: | angry, bearish, bristly, cantankerous, choleric, crabbed, cranky, cross, feisty, fractious, grouchy, hasty, hot-tempered, huffy, ireful, irritable, ogre, passionate, peevish, petulant, querulous, quick-tempered, short-tempered, snappish, surly, testy, thin-skinned, touchy, uptight |
| Notes: | irate means 'angry' while irascible means 'disposed toward or easily provoked to anger' (both are from Latin ira 'anger') |
| Antonyms: | cheerful, happy |
| Main Entry: | quarrelsome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | being disagreeable |
| Synonyms: | argumentative, bad-tempered, bellicose, belligerent, brawling, cantankerous, cat-and-dog, choleric, churlish, combative, contentious, crabby, cross, disputatious, dissentious, excitable, fiery, fractious, gladiatorial, hasty, have chip on shoulder, hotheaded, huffy, impassioned, irascible, irritable, litigious, ornery, passionate, peevish, pettish, petulant, pugnacious, querulous, ructious, snappy, tempestuous, thin-skinned, touchy, truculent, turbulent, unruly, violent, war |
| Antonyms: | agreeable, forgiving, friendly, good-natured, happy, patient |
| Main Entry: | temperamental |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | angry most of the time; moody |
| Synonyms: | capricious, changeable, cussed, easily upset, emotional, erratic, excitable, explosive, fickle, fiery, froward, headstrong, high-strung, hotheaded, hyper, hypersensitive, impatient, in bad mood, inconsistent, irritable, mean, mercurial, neurotic, ornery, passionate, petulant, sensitive, thin-skinned, ticklish, touchy, uncertain, undependable, unpredictable, unreliable, unstable, variable, volatile, willful |
| Antonyms: | easygoing, happy, laid-back, peaceful, pleased |
| Main Entry: | tender |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | painful, sore |
| Synonyms: | aching, acute, bruised, delicate, hypersensitive, inflamed, irritated, oversensitive, raw, sensitive, smarting, thin-skinned, ticklish, touchy |
| Antonyms: | healthy, ok, unpained |
| Main Entry: | testy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | irritable, touchy |
| Synonyms: | annoyed, bad-tempered, cantankerous, captious, choleric, crabbed, cranky*, cross, crotchety, edgy, exasperated, fretful, grouchy, grumpy*, impatient, irascible, mean, ornery*, out of sorts, peevish, peppery, petulant, quarrelsome, quick-tempered, short-tempered, snappy, splenetic, sullen, thin-skinned, uptight*, waspish |
| Antonyms: | happy, pleasant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | touchy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easily offended |
| Synonyms: | bad-tempered, bundle of nerves, cantankerous, captious, choleric, crabbed, cranky, cross, delicate, dicey, grouchy, grumpy, hazardous, hypersensitive, irascible, irritable, jumpy, mean, ornery*, oversensitive, peevish, perturbable, pettish, petulant, precarious, querulous, quick-tempered, risky, sensitive, splenetic, surly, temperamental, testy, thin-skinned, ticklish, tricky, unpredictable, unsafe, uptight*, volatile, wired up, wound up |
| Antonyms: | calm, easygoing, laid-back, unflappable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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