Synonyms for Ticklish

Synonyms for "ticklish" (134 found)

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Closest matches (27)

Adjective(1 words)

abstruse allergic anaphylactic arduous awkward brutal capricious chancy changeable complex critical dangerous delicate demanding desultory dicey difficile difficult empathetic empathic

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exacting fickle formidable fragile goosy hairy

Strong matches (40)

hardhard earnedhard foughthard-earned hard-fought hazardous herculeanhigh strunghigh-strung hyperesthetic hyperpathic hypersensitive inconsistent inconstant infirm insecure insubstantial intricate irritable itchy

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jawbreaking knotted knotty laborious lubricious mean mercurial miffy mutable nervous niceno picnicnot easyon slippery groundon thin iceoperose overrefined oversensible oversensitive overtender

Related words (67)

parlous passible perilous precarious prickly provisional refined responsive rigorous risky rocky rough rugged sensitiveset with thornssevere shaky shifting shifty skittish

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Adjective(2 words)

sensitive touchy

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

2 entries

sensitivesensitive matter

More specific

4 entries

delicate topicsensitive issueticklish feetticklish ribs

Collocations

5 entries

ticklish issueticklish matterticklish questionticklish subjectticklish topic

Inflections

2 entries

more ticklishmost ticklish

Derivations

2 entries

ticklishly ticklishness

similar

2 entries

difficult hard

Sample sentences

14 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I'm ticklish.

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Tom is ticklish.

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Are you ticklish?

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Tom tried to tickle Mary, but found out she was much less ticklish than he was.

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Ticklish