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ticklish
[ tik-lish ]
adjective
- 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.
ticklish
/ ˈtɪklɪʃ /
adjective
- susceptible and sensitive to being tickled
- delicate or difficult
a ticklish situation
- easily upset or offended
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Derived Forms
- ˈticklishly, adverb
- ˈticklishness, noun
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Other Words From
- ticklish·ly adverb
- ticklish·ness noun
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Example Sentences
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.
Here am I, trying to get you out of a mighty ticklish situation, and you go and get funny.
He knows a lot of useful stuff, and these are ticklish times.'
He settled back on his haunches and gave a little thought to the matter, and understood that he had a ticklish job ahead of him.
It was a ticklish business recovering the sledge which hung suspended in the crevasse.
It164 would have been a ticklish business to make one's way along the deck then, he thought.
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