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31touchy-feely — [[t]tʌ̱tʃi fi͟ːli[/t]] ADJ GRADED (disapproval) If you describe something as touchy feely, you mean that it involves people expressing emotions such as love and affection openly in a way which you find embarrassing and silly. ...a touchy feely… …
32touchy-feely — informal expressing a lot of emotion easily, often by touching people with your hands, in a way that some people think is embarrassing. He s one of those touchy feely people who are always putting their arms round you. They run a support group… …
33touchy-feely — mod. very sensitive and em pathetic; pretentiously compassionate. □ Wow, these SNAGs are soooo touchy feely. □ Marge is so touchy feely. She worries that anything she says may possibly offend someone …
34touchy-feely — /tuch ee fee lee/, adj. Informal. emphasizing or marked by emotional openness and enthusiastic physicality: a touchy feely encounter group. * * * …
35touchy-feeliness — noun The state or condition of being touchy feely …
36touchy-feely — demonstrating insincere expressions of sympathy, generosity, or bonhomie A politician or businessman so described does not need to make physical contact with those he seeks to impress: Any more of this touchy feely stuff and I ll have… …
37touchy — Synonyms and related words: agitable, allergic, anaphylactic, argumentative, bad tempered, bearish, cantankerous, captious, chancy, choleric, close, contentious, crabbed, crabby, cranky, critical, cross, crusty, dangerous, delicate, dicey,… …
38touchy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. irritable; risky, delicate. See irritability, sensibility, danger. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Irritable] Syn. ill humored, testy, irascible; see irritable . 2. [Delicate] Syn. harmful, hazardous,… …
39touchy — touch·y || tÊŒtʃɪ adj. sensitive, irritable, thin skinned …
40touchy — adjective (touchier, touchiest) 1》 quick to take offence; oversensitive. 2》 (of a situation or issue) requiring careful handling. Derivatives touchily adverb touchiness noun Origin C17: perh. an alt. of tetchy, influenced by touch …
