ticklish
sensitive to tickling.
requiring careful or delicate handling or action; difficult or risky; dicey: a ticklish situation.
extremely sensitive; touchy: He is ticklish about being interrupted.
unstable or easily upset, as a boat; unsteady.
Origin of ticklish
1Other words from ticklish
- tick·lish·ly, adverb
- tick·lish·ness, noun
Words Nearby ticklish
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How to use ticklish in a sentence
I ran my thumb across my sole and felt a jolting, ticklish sensation I later learned meant I had nerve damage.
But as a Senate candidate, especially one looking to woo Tea Party types, her situation is somewhat more ticklish.
Liz Cheney Uses Syria to (Try to) Salvage Her Campaign Train Wreck | Michelle Cottle | September 5, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHere am I, trying to get you out of a mighty ticklish situation, and you go and get funny.
Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays | VariousHe knows a lot of useful stuff, and these are ticklish times.'
Sarah's School Friend | May BaldwinHe settled back on his haunches and gave a little thought to the matter, and understood that he had a ticklish job ahead of him.
Blow The Man Down | Holman Day
It was a ticklish business recovering the sledge which hung suspended in the crevasse.
The Home of the Blizzard | Douglas MawsonIt164 would have been a ticklish business to make one's way along the deck then, he thought.
Tom Slade with the Colors | Percy K. Fitzhugh
British Dictionary definitions for ticklish
/ (ˈtɪklɪʃ) /
susceptible and sensitive to being tickled
delicate or difficult: a ticklish situation
easily upset or offended
Derived forms of ticklish
- ticklishly, adverb
- ticklishness, noun
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